[Yum-devel] yum-src people

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Mar 17 07:18:55 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 09:10 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, seth vidal wrote:
> > This is why I wanted commands like this in a yum-src command, just so
> > there would be no confusion:
> >
> > yum: manipulating binary rpms
> > yum-src: manipulating src.rpms
> >
> > and never the twain shall meet.
> 
> There you said it: installing build dependencies is actually manipulating 
> binary rpms, that's the only thing I meant with my "I'm beginning to 
> think this should go into yum itself" comment. Stuff like grabbing remote 
> src.rpm's belong to yum-src which, if installdeps goes into yum, wouldn't 
> require root for anything.
> 

I can work with that distinction.

-sv





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