On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Trevor Hemsley via CentOS-devel wrote: > It would probably help if you read the wiki article on how to do this. > > https://wiki.centos.org/Sources That page has problems, and does not work as written. There is problem doing the lookaside, or such The script seems also to already be +x, so the admonition to set is +x is not needed [herrold at centos-8 ~]$ find centos-git-common -name get_sources.sh -a -exec ls -al {} \; -rwxrwxr-x. 1 herrold herrold 6456 Apr 23 12:06 centos-git-common/centos-git-common/get_sources.sh [herrold at centos-8 ~]$ -- Russ herrold worked example of the defect as to samba : ========================================== [herrold at centos-8 ~]$ mkdir centos-git-common [herrold at centos-8 ~]$ cd centos-git-common [herrold at centos-8 centos-git-common]$ git clone https://git.centos.org/centos-git-common.git Cloning into 'centos-git-common'... remote: Counting objects: 217, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (213/213), done. remote: Total 217 (delta 0), reused 217 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (217/217), 131.34 KiB | 1.06 MiB/s, done. [herrold at centos-8 centos-git-common]$ find . -name get_sources.sh ./centos-git-common/get_sources.sh [herrold at centos-8 centos-git-common]$ ln -s ./centos-git-common/get_sources.sh ~/bin/ [herrold at centos-8 centos-git-common]$ git clone https://git.centos.org/rpms/samba.git Cloning into 'samba'... remote: Counting objects: 660, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (578/578), done. remote: Total 660 (delta 71), reused 611 (delta 39) Receiving objects: 100% (660/660), 1.48 MiB | 1.57 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (71/71), done. warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout. [herrold at centos-8 centos-git-common]$ ls -al samba total 24 drwxrwxr-x. 3 herrold herrold 4096 Apr 23 12:07 . drwxrwxr-x. 4 herrold herrold 4096 Apr 23 12:07 .. drwxrwxr-x. 7 herrold herrold 4096 Apr 23 12:07 .git [herrold at centos-8 centos-git-common]$