Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
Yumdownloader relies on repository names ending in -source to tell
whether or not it should enable them when one runs ``yumdownloader
--source $package'' to grab the source for an rpm. But unlike most
repositories, SL's source repository is called "sl-srpms" instead of
"sl-source", so the program doesn't work correctly for anything in the
SL base repositories.
Is there some historical reason for SL's strange naming scheme? Is it
something that can change in a later release like 6.x?
I had no idea that naming the repository had any impact on any part of
yum. It's sorta a bad hack in my opinion. I would think that it would
actually look at the rpm's in question.
That being said, I have no problem renaming the source repositories.
Was it historic. Yes.
We said to ourselves
"What should we name the repository for the source rpms?"
"Well, they are always in a directory called SRPMS, let call it srpms."
"But we should distinguish it so they know it's the Scientific Linux
source rpms."
"OK, then let's call it sl-srpms"
And there you have your historic moment. :)
I've never actually used yum and the source rpms.
Does yum have any way of knowing that something is a src.rpm or not ...
other than a repostory name?
(I've looked in the man page and I'm not seeing anything)
Troy
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