Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
Rahul <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Organization: Red Hat
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> Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> > Given a package foo, how does one access the source rpm for that
> > package in order to prepare a patch for it?
> >
>
> yum install yum-utils
> yumdownloader --source foo
> yum-buildep foo
Excellent! Thanks.
I'm thinking this information should be in the Fedora Wiki someplace.
Any suggestions? I'll be glad to hack in some descriptive text.
Something along the lines of:
Should you want to create a patch for a package then
download the package source using the "yumdownloader" tool
and the "yum-buildep" tool to ???. Both of these tools are
part of the "yum-utils" package. By default the source
rpm will be installed to ... where development will take
place.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/yum
It really should be part of the Yum guide
(http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/) but Fedora documentation project
really needs more active contributors.
Rahul
