以32位CentOS6.6下，获取ls命令的源代码为例，可以使用如下的方法下载源代码：
1）配置源代码的源
在CentOS中，源的配置文件为：/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo，修改该文件需要root权限。
打开该文件，查看该文件的内容，在本人的机子上，该文件的内容如下：
# CentOS-Base.repo
#
# The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the
# update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and
# geographically close to the client. You should use this for CentOS updates
# unless you are manually picking other mirrors.
#
# If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the
# remarked out baseurl= line instead.
#
#
[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
#contrib - packages by Centos Users
[contrib]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=contrib
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
该文件中有两个变量：releasever和basearch，分别表示release版本和分支，如本人的机子上，这两个值分别为6和i386。注意，releasever并不会细分为次级版本，即不会是6.6之类的。
从该文件的内容可以知道，该文件共有5个节，也就是说本人的机子的软件来源有5处，分别为base、updates、extras、centosplus和contrib。所以只需要为如下的5处软件源指定其源代码的源即可。在文件的末尾加上如下的内容：
[base-src]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base src
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.6/os/Source/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
[updates-src]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates src-centos
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.6/updates/Source/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
[extras-src]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras src-centos
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.6/extras/Source/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
[centosplus-src]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus src-centos
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.6/centosplus/Source/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
[contrib-src]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib src-centos
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.6/contrib/Soruce/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
