[CentOS] source rpms

[Nick Smith]

On 5/16/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/16/06, Nick Smith <nick.smith79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > how can i get the source rpms for the packages installed on my centos
> > 3.6 server? is there a certain repositories i have to add to my
> > yum.conf?  Im trying to setup a filtering program "smartfilter" and
> > they want me to point to the source for squid, which i cant seem to
> > find.  can anyone shed some light on this for me?  someone i was
> > talking to said that centos strips out the source to keep the bulk
> > down, but i was hoping that wasnt the case.
>
> To build against squid, you should only need the squid-devel package.
> If you really do need srpms, you can get them on any centos mirror,
> but they aren't available via yum.
>
>
how do i get the squid-devel package? yum seach squid-devel comes up
with nothing, and i really dont want to add a 3rd party rpm into the
mix for stability reasons.  smartfilter needs be to point it to the
source for squid so it can patch it for use with smartfilter, so would
that be the devel package or the srpm that i need?  Im unsure.  and
eventually this box will have lyris running on it as well, and it has
enough problems of its own ;-)

thanks