[CentOS] CentOS source rpm repository setup

Tue May 21 21:38:38 UTC 2013
Greg Bailey <gbailey at lxpro.com>

On 05/21/2013 09:00 AM, Markus Falb wrote:
> On 21.Mai.2013, at 15:53, Toralf Lund wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I thought I might set up my CentOS 6 system with a source rpm repository
>> config, so that I'll be able to download srpm files via "yumdownloader
>> --source" or similar.
>>
>> The question is, what I specify as "baseurl"? The above does not
>> actually work, as http://mirror.centos.org/ does not have SRPMS
>> subdirectories, although I believe it did in the past for earlier
>> versions. So, does anyone know of URLs I can use instead?
> They moved it into the vault some time ago.
> http://vault.centos.org
>

I opened bug #6462 ( http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6462 )

to request this... I think this would be a useful feature to have 
available by default.

-Greg