Bug 179203

Summary:	Yum flag for locating source?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dee-Ann LeBlanc <dee>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description Dee-Ann LeBlanc 2006-01-28 01:40:24 UTC

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Description of problem:
It would be nice to have a flag in yum that lets me specify that I want the source for a package rather than the package itself. It would be far more convenient than having to type out the whole package name (laziness rules).

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Look in yum documentation.
2. Find no flag for specifying that I want to look for or install the source package rather than the program package.
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Comment 1 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2006-01-28 01:44:26 UTC

yumdownloader in yum-utils can do that.

Comment 2 Dee-Ann LeBlanc 2006-01-28 02:37:16 UTC

Why have the feature farmed off in some obscure tool (that doesn't even rate a
man page) and not available in the main yum? I'm honestly not trying to be a
pain, it just seems it would be a useful addition.