Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

Peter Cannon peter at cannon3.wanadoo.co.uk
Fri Dec 17 10:12:45 UTC 2004


On Friday 17 December 2004 08:00, Satish Balay wrote:

> > >  http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/3/
> >
> > It's there a way to see packages descriptions (from spec files) before
> > downloading?
>
> use 'yum info packagename'
>
> The URL to the cvs was posted in the initial announcement
> (http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/). It has all the current .spec files,
> so you can do a 'cvs co' or browse it via the web interface.

Sorry to be dense but can I add this to Synaptic? I did add it as a repo (all 
one line) Synaptic doesn't complain but I don't see the packages


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Peter Cannon




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