Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 173322
yumdownloader doesent work properly with extras src rpms by default
Last modified: 2013-01-09 20:20:05 EST
Description of problem: with default configuration its not possible to yumdownloader --source dosbox. should work in my eyes since extras is enabled by default. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): latest fc4 rel How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install fedora core 4 2. yumdownloader --source dosbox (for example) Actual results: yumdownloader --source dosbox Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 130, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 70, in main my = initYum(opts.source) File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 43, in initYum my.doRepoSetup() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line 225, in doRepoSetup File "repos.py", line 544, in baseurlSetup File "repos.py", line 427, in check yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released Expected results: yumdownloader should use the yum configuration properly (mirrorlists etc) to be able to grab src files from all enabled repos. Additional info: no clue where the bug occurs i was too lazy to look into the source.
This isn't really a bug in yum-utils but in the lack of configuration files for the source repo tree. This ought to be moved to component "fedora-release", but there's no bugzilla component for that. (?!)
reassigning
well also the exception should be handled properly.
Okay, sure. :)
problem also occurs with updates repository
I'm going to look into having a sources repo configured in the release and available on the mirrors for FC5.
It would also be good to get repodata for the SRPMS directories for base and updates-released. Also, I would suggest using a consistent naming for the repositories. Like base-source, updates-sources, extras-source. That way, doing '--enablerepo=\*-source' would select all the source repos. It could even be done automatically by 'yumdownloader --source'.
Fedora-release package in rawhide includes -source repos for base, updates, extras, development. Also -debuginfo for these. repodata is generated for these dirs too.