[opensuse] install source rpms via yast2

2007-10-27 Thread Sebastian Brandt
Hi! I'm feeling kind of stupid ... have done more than a decade of linux, started with kernel 1.2.8, and I'm unable to install the source packages with yast2 (spm, src.rpm) Of course, I can download them, install them with rpm, build and install the binaries ... no problem ... but: Why the heck is

Re: [opensuse] install source rpms via yast2

2007-10-27 Thread Jan Kupec
Sebastian Brandt wrote: Hi! I'm feeling kind of stupid ... have done more than a decade of linux, started with kernel 1.2.8, and I'm unable to install the source packages with yast2 (spm, src.rpm) Of course, I can download them, install them with rpm, build and install the binaries ... no

Re: [opensuse] install source rpms via yast2

2007-10-27 Thread Sebastian Brandt
Jan Kupec schrieb: I don't know about YaST, but zypper has a basic support for this: $ zypper source-install foo Currently it will install the newest available version of the 'foo' source package. Mh, a bit of getting a lucky shot, yet works at least for some packages ... though, guessing