[CentOS] Question relating to yumdownloader

Wed Mar 12 23:55:07 UTC 2008
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Clint Dilks <clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hi
>
>  I use yumdownloader occasionally to grab RPMS.  One thing that confuses
>  me though is the --source option.  I thought this would mean rather than
>  getting the RPM that it would retrieve the source RPM.  But it appears
>  this isn't the case.  Can anyone explain what this option actually
>  relates to ?

This will help:

http://www.bofh-hunter.com/2008/02/17/getting-the-source/

Thanks to Jim Perrin,

Akemi