Bug 162355

Summary:	yumdownloader --source doesn't work
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Aaron Kurtz <a.kurtz>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Aaron Kurtz 2005-07-03 02:42:28 UTC

Description of problem:
yumdownloader can't download SRPMs from FC and FE.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-utils-0.2-2.fc4

How reproducible:

"yumdownloader straw" grabs the FC4 rpm.
"yumdownloader --source straw" fails with
No Match for argument straw

Ignacio said in #fedora that this needs the SRPMs in the repo to work.

Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2005-07-03 15:56:55 UTC

straw's srpm isn't in the default Fedora Extras repository - it is in a separate
srpm repo for Fedora Extras.

so yumdownloader is doing exactly the right thing - the straw srpm doesn't exist.

Comment 2 Aaron Kurtz 2005-07-05 18:22:27 UTC

It may not be a bug per se, but I wouldn't describe this behavior as the right
thing to do, or even the expected. I would have expected it to download SRPMS
without issue.

I haven't seen any SRPM repos. Considering yumdownloader doesn't have an
enablerepo option, a SRPM repo would slow down every other transaction for what
isn't likely to be a common operation.

For anyone else who comes looking, a SRPM repo just needs $basearch replaced
with SRPM and the repo name in brackets changed. Or one can use --urls and
substitute SRPMS and src for the directory and package architechture values.

Comment 3 Seth Vidal 2005-07-22 15:58:13 UTC

right - but it's not really a yum bug - it's more of a repository configuration
issue.

I'll file this under distro