[Yum] Installing the SRPM

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 14:16, Joseph Tate wrote:
> Might there be a way to install the SRPM for a package using YUM?  I 
> find that I do that pretty frequently.  Say a commandline switch?
> 

Not at the moment. The problem is that in many cases the srpm is not
always available in any given repository. And specifically, yum-arch
doesn't index them. It could and it would be a pretty neat idea - but
not something I have on the short-list.

-sv

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