Re: Alpha Core 3 is available

[Anders Waananen <waananen nbi dk>]

Mike Barnes <mike grouse net au> writes:

> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>> A similar request:  is there a list of YUM repositories?
>
> I'm trying to get one together under ftp.alphacore.info. All that's there
> right now is an unpacked version of the ISOs, and I haven't checked if the
> repodata is up to date (it's just what shipped on the CDs). I'll probably get
> AC2 in there over the weekend, as well.
>
> See: http://ftp.alphacore.info/alpha/core/3/os/
>
> I'd suggest a yum.conf structure like;
>
> 	[base]
> 	name=Alpha Core $releasever - Base
> 	baseurl=ftp://ftp.alphacore.info/alpha/core/$releasever/os
> 	enabled=1
>
> 	[updates]
> 	name=Alpha Core $releasever - Updates
> 	baseurl=ftp://ftp.alphacore.info/alpha/core/$releasever/updates
> 	enabled=0
>
> 	[extras]
> 	name=Alpha Core $releasever - Extras
> 	baseurl=ftp://ftp.alphacore.info/alpha/core/$releasever/extras
> 	enabled=0
>
> I can't see any reason to use $basearch directories. :)

If the plan is to merge with Fedora at some point it might make sense to keep
the "alpha" part for the architecture.

Cheers

Anders

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