On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, seth vidal wrote:
They've stated that no one seems to be interested in source functionality: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2004-June/004526.html
I don't have a problem with it - it's just not something immediately on my radar. However, if you'd like to work on something like that - I can point you in the right direction for it. It's actually easier to do now than it was a few months ago.
Seth,
I know I volunteered for the centos/rhel patch comparisons, and haven't finished that yet, but it is an "after-hours" project. My "day job" could make good use of yum source rpm support, because we upgrade centos with mysql4, and thus all packages that link againt mysql need to be rebuilt. I wrote a bash script to do this and just made my own yum repo to handle it, but since we don't actually modify the rpms (just rebuild them on a system where we've upgraded mysql), having srpm rebuild support would simplify things. I'm no python guru, but if you can do some pointing I think I could handle this.
Could you make my day job a little less demanding? That'd make things happen, for me, faster. :)
You need to ask for Professor MacGonagall's Time Turner ;-)