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

[Jim Kinney]

In Fedora, check the /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo file. The default
has a section:

[fedora-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch


Change the "enabled=0" to "enabled=1".

Then it should be

yum install foo.src

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Richard Bronosky<Richard at bronosky.com> wrote:
> 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/')
>
> .!# RichardBronosky #!.
>
>
>
> 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>
>>
>> --
>> Sent from my mobile device
>>
>> .!# RichardBronosky #!.
>>
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