[CentOS] Question relating to yumdownloader

Clint Dilks clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz
Thu Mar 13 01:29:53 UTC 2008


Bingo, I didn't even think to check if there are source repositories 
defined.  Thanks for the help much appreciated :)


Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Clint Dilks <clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>>  I use yumdownloader occasionally to grab RPMS.  One thing that confuses
>>  me though is the --source option.  I thought this would mean rather than
>>  getting the RPM that it would retrieve the source RPM.  But it appears
>>  this isn't the case.  Can anyone explain what this option actually
>>  relates to ?
>>     
>
> This will help:
>
> http://www.bofh-hunter.com/2008/02/17/getting-the-source/
>
> Thanks to Jim Perrin,
>
> Akemi
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