On Wednesday, 26 November 2008 at 14:10, James Hubbard wrote:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Dominik 'Rathann'
Mierzejewski
<dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 November 2008 at 18:28, James Hubbard wrote:
>> Why does anyone go searching for a srpm? Everyone has their reasons.
>> You are assuming that the user has those tools. What if the user is
>> on another system or does not have net connectivity? I will go back
>> to older versions of fedora to download srpms. However, I usually
>> know the package name.
>>
>> I do not believe that not having a separate srpm for this will be a
>> problem. Anyone that needs it will probably figure it out. I think
>> that having packages where there are multiple applications in one rpm
>> is more of a problem from the end user stand point.
>
> You can always check which src.rpm a package was built from with rpm -qi.
The post by Till Maas that I was responding to made that point. Did
you miss my point about being on a system that does not have rpm
installed? I have frequently downloaded rpms and occasionally srpms
while using a windows machine. In many U.S. government facilities,
it would be impossible to get a linux box onto a network with Internet
connectivity. There are corporate networks where it would be
forbidden to connect a linux system.
But it's fine to connect a Windows box? How idiotic. Anyway, I believe
koji lets you search for rpms and files.
>> The example that sticks out my head is the kdeskd rpm.
>
> yum search kdeskd returns no results.
My mistake. The package name is kdesdk instead of kdeskd. There have
been times when I wanted to install Umbrello only. Unfortunately, it
installs all of the kde software development packages such as
kdevelop.
No, it doesn't:
# yum install /usr/bin/umbrello
...
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Installing:
kdesdk x86_64 4.1.2-3.fc9 updates-newkey 6.9 M
Installing for dependencies:
kdesdk-libs x86_64 4.1.2-3.fc9 updates-newkey 281 k
kdesdk-utils x86_64 4.1.2-3.fc9 updates-newkey 259 k
perl-XML-DOM noarch 1.44-4.fc9 fedora 138 k
perl-XML-Parser x86_64 2.36-3.fc9 fedora 295 k
perl-XML-RegExp noarch 0.03-4.fc9 fedora 8.5 k
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 6 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 7.8 M
Is this ok [y/N]: N
Exiting on user Command
Complete!
Regards,
R.
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