On 02/10/2010 11:39 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> I guess I've never understood how this is helpful. In order to use it, 
>> you'd first need to configure the repo, which means creating/editing a 
>> config file. And you go to that effort so that yum can resolve a handful 
>> of inter-subpackage deps for you?
> 
> A large handful (build a gcc sometime), that you have to pick and download.
> And yum should have --repofrompath like repoquery does (I thought it did,
> actually).  i.e.:
> 
>       yum upgrade 
> --repofrompath=test,http://koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/roland/task_1965799
> 
>> I've just never had any trouble running yum localinstall against the 
>> resulting rpms.
> 
> Nor have I, after either spending some time operating my mouse to download
> the right ones, and trying three different times to have it tell me I
> missed one I forgot was actually a dependency of the one I needed to test,
> or else spending the same 10 minutes again every time (I know, I should
> just write it down) to figure out how to make wget or curl download the
> whole directory full without filling my world with files called
> 'index.html?M=D.2' or following too many links and trying to download the
> entire koji site.

Have you tried "koji download-build" (for official builds) or
http://people.redhat.com/mikeb/scripts/download-scratch.py (for
--scratch builds)?
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