27/11/2011 21:46 +0100, grigory poisson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>         
>         On 11/17/2011 03:56 PM, Scott Mcdermott wrote:
>                 SL Users,
>                 
>                 I am wondering if anyone knows how to successfully
>                 mirror the Scientific Linux source repo? I.e. for
>                 things like "yumdownloader --source" to work?
>                 
>                 Here's what I have in the .repo file for the source,
>                 after distro installation:
>                 
>                 
>                 baseurl=http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/$releasever/SRPMS/
>                 
>                 http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/$releasever/SRPMS/
>                 
>                 http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/$releasever/SRPMS/
>                 
>                 ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/$releasever/SRPMS/
>                 
>                 but if we look we see:
>                 
>                     lftp
>                 ftp.scientificlinux.org:/linux/scientific/6.1/SRPMS>
>                  dir
>                     drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0            2048 Nov 17
>                 20:52 repodata
>                     drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0            2048 Jul 26
>                 16:52 repos
>                     drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0           10240 Oct 12
>                 22:05 sl6-added
>                     drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0           10240 Jul 28
>                 16:19 sl6-changed
>                     drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0          432128 Nov 17
>                 20:51 vendor
>                 
>                 problem with this is that it's in three separate dirs
>                 the
>                 src.rpm files are not where expected, and thus I get
>                 metadata for it ('repodata/*.xml' are in correct
>                 location)
>                 when I mirror using 'reposync', but there's no actual
>                 packages because they aren't where they're supposed to
>                 be.
>                 
>                 This problem doesn't seem to affect the binary
>                 repositories.
>                 I am mirroring those without problems.
>                 
>                 Any ideas? Thanks.
>                 
>         
>         
>         I can't speak to the reposync issue, but I can recommend rsync
>         for mirroring the source repo
>         ( http://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirroring/mirror.rsync ).
>         
>         As for yumdownloader --source , that seems to be working for
>         me
>         
>         $ yumdownloader --source gdm
>         Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
>         Enabling sl-source repository
>         gdm-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.src.rpm                            | 2.7
>         MB     00:00
>         
>         The repodata files know that they various RPMS are in sub
>         directories and reference them accordingly.
>         
>         Pat
>         
>         -- 
>         Pat Riehecky
>         Scientific Linux Developer
> This does not seem to work for me for SL5:
>  $ yumdownloader --enablerepo=sl-source  --source  gdm
> Loaded plugins: kernel-module, priorities
> No source RPM found for 1:gdm-2.16.0-56.sl.i386

Just change the name of yum repo [sl-source] to [sl-base-source]
at /etc/yum.repos.d/sl-srpms.repo config file.

> But
> $ yumdownloader -d 7 --enablerepo=slc5-updates-srpms  --source
> --noplugins --urls gdm
> Config time: 0.132
> repo time: 0.000
> Setting up Package Sacks
> pkgsack time: 0.041
> No source RPM found for 1:gdm-2.16.0-56.sl.i386
> Running compare_providers() for [<YumAvailablePackageSqlite :
> 1:gdm-2.16.0-56.el5.src (0x8e8c44c)>, <YumAvailablePackageSqlite :
> 1:gdm-2.16.0-56.1.slc5.src (0x8e8c42c)>, <YumAvailablePackageSqlite :
> 1:gdm-2.16.0-56.slc5.src (0x8e8c46c)>]
> Reading Local RPMDB
> rpmdb time: 0.000
> base package gdm is installed for 1:gdm-2.16.0-56.1.slc5.src
> base package gdm is installed for 1:gdm-2.16.0-56.slc5.src
> Best Order: [(<YumAvailablePackageSqlite : 1:gdm-2.16.0-56.1.slc5.src
> (0x8e8c42c)>, 7), (<YumAvailablePackageSqlite :
> 1:gdm-2.16.0-56.slc5.src (0x8e8c46c)>, -1017)]
> http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/i386/yum/updates-srpms//gdm-2.16.0-56.1.slc5.src.rpm
> 
> gregory
> 
>