download all RPMs from a metapackage

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Published on 2012-09-05T17:47:25Z Indexed on 2012/09/05 21:40 UTC
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example of what im trying to do

    # yumdownloader net-snmp.x86_64 --source
Enabling epel-source repository
epel-source                                                                                                                                                             | 2.9 kB     00:00     
No source RPM found for 1:net-snmp-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.x86_64
No source RPM found for 1:net-snmp-5.3.2.2-17.el5.x86_64
Nothing to download

How do you download all the RPM's inside a metapackage?

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