Bug 179542

Summary:	Allow yum to install source rpm (.src.rpm) files, for example to install kernel source code
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	James Hunt <jamesodhunt>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Version:	4	CC:	katzj
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Description James Hunt 2006-02-01 08:28:12 UTC

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Description of problem:
yum cannot install source rpm (.src.rpm) files, for example to install kernel source code.

Official method (according to FC4 release notes) is to use up2date:

  up2date --get-source kernel

However, up2date doesn't work "out-of-the-box" on FC4, and it would be great if yum could handle this functionality itself.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-2.4.1-1.fc4

How reproducible:
Didn't try


Additional info:

Comment 1 Rahul Sundaram 2006-02-01 08:30:42 UTC


Thank you for the report. Yum-utils which is in Fedora Extras has yumdownloader
which provides the functionality to download source rpms. yum-builddep lets you
gather build dependencies. Wouldnt be necessary to duplicate all those
functionality in yum itself.  Closing this.