So I tried to do this:-
yumdownloader --source sendmail But hit this problem:-
Last metadata expiration check: 0:08:48 ago on Wed 16 Dec 2020 10:34:00 AM GMT. No package sendmail-8.15.2-34.el8.src available. Exiting due to strict setting. Error: No package sendmail-8.15.2-34.el8.src available. So I made sure epel etc is installed, and I enabled all things in /etc/yum.repos.d - but there's no existing source info.
The CensOS doc unhelpfully says this:-
Source RPMs will also be published once the release is done, in the usual location at http://vault.centos.org/centos/8/ From a CentOS machine you can easily retrieve sources using the yumdownloader --source <packagename> command. Their definition of easily is clearly different to mine.
Now; the stream release is not /8/ in "CentOS-Stream-AppStream.repo" - it is actually /8-stream/ - and sure enough, I can find my sendmail binary in http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/sendmail-8.15.2-34.el8.x86_64.rpm - as you can tell from cd /etc/dnf/vars;cat `grep . *` which reveals their variables thus: contentdir:centos infra:stock stream:8-stream (the CentOS-Stream-AppStream.repo base URL is http://mirror.centos.org/$contentdir/$stream/AppStream/$basearch/os/ )
HOWEVER...
https://vault.centos.org/centos/8-stream/ contains only empty folders - no repodata or source files, and the /8/ tree does not contain the stream source ... grrr.
I created the below to enable all the /8/ Source files, but sendmail-8.15.2-34.el8.src.rpm is not one of them :-(
cat CentOS-Stream-Source.repo
[baseos-source] name=CentOS Stream $releasever - BaseOS - Source #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/ baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/BaseOS/Source # /usr/libexec/platform-python -c 'import dnf, json; db = dnf.dnf.Base(); print(json.dumps(db.conf.substitutions, indent=2))' => { "arch": "x86_64", "basearch": "x86_64", "releasever": "8" } # See also: cd /etc/dnf/vars;grep . * => contentdir:centos infra:stock stream:8-stream #metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8 gpgcheck=1 [appstream-source] name=CentOS Stream $releasever - AppStream - Source baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/AppStream/Source enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8 gpgcheck=1 [highavailability-source] name=CentOS Stream $releasever - HighAvailability - Source baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/HighAvailability/Source enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8 gpgcheck=1 [powertools-source] name=CentOS Stream $releasever - PowerTools - Source baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/PowerTools/Source enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8 gpgcheck=1 [centosplus-source] name=CentOS Stream $releasever - centosplus - Source baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/centosplus/Source enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8 gpgcheck=1 [extras-source] name=CentOS Stream $releasever - extras - Source baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/extras/Source enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8 gpgcheck=1 So yeah, long question (sorry), but where in tarnation have they stashed the wretched source files - anyone know? (and yes, I did JFGI before typing... 0 results as of writing)
