On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
so, these days, is that the canonical way to download source rpms?
I am substantially certain we have a wiki article on mirroring, and certainly I've written about mirroring over and over again from many approaches [my most recent blog post, aggregated by http://planet.centos.org/ has a recap at the bottom of some of those articles]. wget, lftp, and lynx all work fine. Of course RPM itself is a fine retrieval tool as well and has been __forever__
so, is that reasonable? to just manually add an extra repo file according to that link above (which appears to work perfectly well).
It is reasonable only if the user also has the willingness and skills to self-support. We don't (and cannot) support what we dont ship
frankly, the wiki page on downloading from source:
http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/SourceInstalls
seems just a touch on the hysterical side. i don't disagree that installing packages from the source rpm is probably a questionable idea. but that doesn't justify simply not explaining how to do it easily.
"Here is a gun, and bullets. Leave it unloaded and in a locked case" and it is perfectly harmless
Add another random 'find' and 'great tip to stop RPM from carping about dependencies'with the "--nodeps", and BANG, your system is dead. It is all CentOS and RPM's fault, of course - "dependency hell, don't you know"
Yeah -- I know where I am going to send support load, going forward, who is not so hysterical
WHAT? you don't want to handle that load RIGHT NOT and for FREE, and on a newbies mis- and partial-information? hunh
-- Russ herrold