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Samveen
Asked: 2015-03-30 23:42:03 +0800 CST

RPM Repo: Clone just Source packages

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As part of a project, I need to rebuild source RPMs from the really convenient Remi Yum repo(Source RPMS).

The search for some way to efficiently get those packages was not a very successful venture(common keywords lead to very polluted results on Google). reposync can do this, but only as an add-on to cloning the RPM portion of the repo. What I need is something that does this just for the sources.

Any leads to doing this efficiently?

Note: Inefficient solution already applied:

extractXPathAttr.pl 'http://rpms.famillecollet.com/SRPMS/'  '//tr/td[2]/a[1]' 'href'  |\
    grep src.rpm |\
    xargs -I{} wget 'http://rpms.famillecollet.com/SRPMS/{}'

(extractXPathAttr.pl extracts the required attribute of the elements specified by the XPath from the given URL. I'll put it up on github once it's cleaned up and documented.)

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    reposync can be used for just the sources.

    It does not matter if the source repo is enabled under /etc/yum.repos.d/ or not. Just as long as there is a source repo under there it will reposync with it enabled or not.

    Make sure that you specify the name of the source repository along with the --source option:

    reposync -n --source -r foobar-source

    Versions used in this answer: rpm -q yum-utils yum-utils-1.1.31-42.el7.noarch cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)

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  2. You could try mirroring the contents of the repository:

    wget --mirror http://rpms.famillecollet.com/SRPMS/

    The mirror option already uses timestamping, so it's useful for updates of the local mirror as well.

    Then use createrepo locally.

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