[Yum-devel] yum-downloader RFE

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Jun 13 22:17:08 UTC 2005


> Mm.. why step 2? It is possible to reliably parse the n-v-r out of the
> sourcerpm tag, so just look up the sourcerpm name from the given binary
> and then try to locate that. But see my earlier comments, last I looked
> there were some complications there with yum refusing to give out
> src.rpm's if there are binaries of that name in pkgSack because packages
> with 'src' arch get excluded or something like that. Need to recheck
> what was the exact issue, it's been a while since I looked at this
> thingy...
> 

Not an issue anymore. You just add 'src' to the set of archs.

-sv





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