On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:56 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
so, is that reasonable? to just manually add an extra repo file according to that link above (which appears to work perfectly well).
In my opinion, in most cases there is no particularly good reason to bother compiling a source rpm yourself unless it's something that's not already in a repository.
but no one is suggesting that you always want to *compile* a source rpm. perhaps you just want to examine the source, or do a prep, or something.
more to the point, it's a little disturbing that the general attitude here seems to be one of, "we don't think you should be doing something, so we're not going to tell you how to do it." and some people here wonder why others might want to write their own online centos howtos rather than contribute to centos.org? geez, feel free to stop wondering.
if it makes it easier, perhaps that wiki page could be retitled something more general, such as "working with source rpms." then it could cover simple repo setup and downloading and, with a suitable warning, also cover building. but it's a little high-handed to not explain how to do something because you've decided it's not something you want *others* to know.
rday