Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> Yumdownloader relies on repository names ending in -source to tell 
> whether or not it should enable them when one runs ``yumdownloader 
> --source $package'' to grab the source for an rpm.  But unlike most 
> repositories, SL's source repository is called "sl-srpms" instead of 
> "sl-source", so the program doesn't work correctly for anything in the 
> SL base repositories.
> 
> Is there some historical reason for SL's strange naming scheme?  Is it 
> something that can change in a later release like 6.x?

I had no idea that naming the repository had any impact on any part of 
yum.  It's sorta a bad hack in my opinion.  I would think that it would 
actually look at the rpm's in question.

That being said, I have no problem renaming the source repositories.

Was it historic.  Yes.
We said to ourselves
"What should we name the repository for the source rpms?"
"Well, they are always in a directory called SRPMS, let call it srpms."
"But we should distinguish it so they know it's the Scientific Linux 
source rpms."
"OK, then let's call it sl-srpms"
And there you have your historic moment. :)

I've never actually used yum and the source rpms.
Does yum have any way of knowing that something is a src.rpm or not ... 
other than a repostory name?
(I've looked in the man page and I'm not seeing anything)

Troy
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