Ack, so it seems, I had no idea. This bug could be left with the new subject line as a wishlist item that the user would be told where to find the installed sources more easily. Or it could be closed. When I was a newcomer to SUSE (or well back to SUSE after a very long time) I had hard time finding them even from /usr/src - even though obvious in hindsight - let alone now /root/rpmbuild in this case, when I was used to source fetching commands to fetch them to the current directory. So it's an usability issue.