A.J. Bonnema wrote:
> Does any one know how I can get to the sources of the source
> repositories?
>
> I can not find any sources using "yum search" nor does kyum include
> any sources in the available list.
>
> I also checked this list, but found only discussions on kernel
> source (which appears to be different anyway).
>
> What I would like is to get the source from a regular package like
> f.i. xmlindent and then just browse it or compile it or whatever.
>
> P.S. Ofcourse I enable the source repository I am interested in,
> but that did not help.....
If I understand your question, then you can get more or less what you
want using yumdownloader from the yum-utils package:
$ yumdownloader --source kernel
That will download the .src.rpm for the kernel which you can then
rebuild using rpm or just unpack it to poke around or whatever you
like.
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