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

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 22:52 -0400, Richard Bronosky 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 #!.

How about "yumdownloader --source foo"

It's in yum-utils.  I use it all the time to snatch rawhide source rpm's
(like the gnupg and gnupg2 packages just recently) to backport into
earlier distros:

yumdownloader --enablerepo=rawhide --source gnupg gnupg2

Done.  Install the rpms and rebuild them.

	Mike

> 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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