[ale] Epic 'wish I had chosen Debian' fail

[Richard Bronosky]

I never did learn how to add a source repo to yum, but I did work
around it. The following works for downloading a source package:

p=postfix; # Change this to your packagename.
curl -O $(yumdownloader --urls $p |sed
'$!d;s?/os/.*/?/os/SRPMS/?;s/[^.]*\.rpm$/src.rpm/')

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On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Richard Bronosky<Richard at bronosky.com> wrote:
> I just spent 3 hours trying to install postfix compiled with mysql
> support. Most of that time was spent trying to get a source repo added
> so I could: yumdownloader --source postfix
>
> No luck. Wasted night. I could have really used the sleep. </rant>
>
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