[Yum] yum list available comes up empty

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 14 16:18:33 UTC 2009



On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Michael Schwager wrote:

> Thanks.  Well, as long as I have your ear, I notice that the [fedora-source] section has the source RPMS.  As is already
> plastered all over the internet, I know I cannot install the source packages.  But does this mean, too, that there is no
> way to list them?
> 
> yum list available won't show the source packages.  I wonder if there is any way to do so.

the source packages are accessible from other yum-related tools:

yumdownloader --source ....

repoquery --archlist=src --repoid=fedora-source -q -a

reposync, obviously.

yum-builddep


does that help?

-sv






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