In the process of solving a recent F18 problem it was suggested to me that I 
examine the grub2 source code. A standard way of obtaining the source code for 
Fedora packages is to download the srpm. yumdownloader can be used for this. I 
recently happened upon the Fedora Package Database and noticed it offers access 
to source code.

Fedora 18 uses grub2 v2.00 (current install is grub2-2.00-15.fc18.i686). 
Viewing the Fedora package database entry for grub2 
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/grub2.git/ (the portion labelled 
"download") I don't see anything more recent than grub2 version 1.98 for 
Fedora 14. Does anyone have any ideas why there is nothing there more recent?

The Fedora Project documentation relating to package maintenance talks about 
using "fedpkg" to access packages in git. It seems to me that the Fedora 
Package database would be the most convenient way for an end-user (non-
maintainer) to view (without intent to modify) Fedora package source code if 
it worked the way I'm assuming it should. 

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