On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 16:28 -0600, Gabriel M. Elder wrote: > 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 > yum will not install source rpms as far as I know. You can download the src rpm: x.src.rpm then run: rpm -i x.src.rpm which will put a file : x.spec in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS Then run: rpmbuild -bb x.spec which will put a rpm: x.rpm in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS That rpm can be installed as usual: rpm -i x.rpm -- ======================================================================= Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. -- Jean Anouilh ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
