I've spent some time trying to find a way to install source rpms from the source repos using yum and yumex, thus far to no avail. The various internet search engines didn't turn up anything really useful regarding this. I've enabled the fedora-source repository by manually editing the /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo file. I came across a suggestion to add the line: "repo_exclude =" to /etc/yumex.conf, which allows all repos to be listed in the "Repository Selection View" in yumex. I was surprised to learn that yumex does not show the source and debuginfo repos in this list by default, even if they are enabled. I've checked out the man page, but apparently there is no command-line option for yum to tell it to install a given source package. Nor have I been able to find any sort of gui control in yumex that would assist me towards this end. Pirut doesn't seem to offer this feature, either. This is almost making me want to use apt (which seems faster overall, anyway). So... what am I missing here, folks? Is it possible to install a source rpm from a source repo via yum or yumex? If so, how? Has this capability just not been implemented yet? Or should i just wget what i need and forget about using yum to fetch sources? tia, - gabriel
