On 12 February 2014 00:45, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
> On 02/12/14 06:27, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:23:37 -0500 (EST) > >> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > >> > >>> currently (against my better judgment) updating one of the fedora > >>> wiki pages: > >>> > >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel > >>> > >>> and i'm fairly sure that "yumdownloader --source" does *not* need the > >>> user to explicitly enable the source repos, yumdownloader will do that > >>> automatically, yes? where is that actually stated? "man yumdownloader" > >>> doesn't say that but it seems to work fine for me here, i just want to > >>> know where i can point to make that clear. thanks. > >>> > >>> rday > >>> > >> yumdownloader -h (--help) > > that does not clarify what i was asking about -- it simply says that > > "--source" operates on source packages. > > Well, it actually says.... > > yumdownloader options: > --destdir=DESTDIR destination directory (defaults to current > directory) > --urls just list the urls it would download instead of > downloading > --resolve resolve dependencies and download required packages > --source operate on source packages > --archlist=ARCHLIST > only download packages of certain architecture(s) > > So, those 5 options are the ones that apply to "yumdownloader". Since > there is no mention of --enablerepo being part of the options applicable to > "yumdownloader" it implies that option is not available/needed. > > > > In the man page is says: ADDITIONAL OPTIONS Yumdownloader inherits all other options from yum. See the yum(8) man page for more information --enablerepo can be used with yumdownloader. So the --help message should say something like: Yum Base Options (inherited by yumdownloader) > -- > Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- Ahmad Samir
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