Johnny Hughes wrote: > Dave wrote: > >> Hello, >> I'm running centos5. There's some rpms that exist on fedora that are >> not in centos5 in it's repos. I was wondering if it was possible to set >> up yum to get only selected packages in source rpm form ou of a fedora >> repo and install them on centos? In that way they could be recompiled >> for centos5. >> Thanks. >> Dave. >> > > Sure ... if you add this as a repo: > > http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/updates/7/SRPMS/ > > Then you can download SRPMS from there. > I dunno, but I think I'd rather manually download any wrong-distro SPRMs and rebuild them by hand.