On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 00:16 -0400, Paul Michael Reilly wrote: > Rahul <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > ... > > 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. > > No problem. And no reason why both can't be addressed at the same > time. > > I did have a problem that you might have some insight into. The tool > I want to patch is rt3 from the Extras repository. But yumdownloader > finds no source in Extras: > > [root@pareve ~]# yumdownloader --source rt3 > yumdownloader --source rt3 > dries [1/6] > core [2/6] > updates [3/6] > freshrpms [4/6] > macromedia [5/6] > extras [6/6] > No Match for argument rt3 > > I cc'd the maintainer who might also have some insight. I don't know the cause, but I'd guess on a yum-client configuration issue. SRPMS are kept in separate repos, not inside of the repos being used for binary rpms, so I'd guess you need to add the srpms's repo somewhere to your yum-client setup. Ralf
