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 -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LSCS/CSI/USS Group __________________________________________________