what's what in official yum repositories?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:48:37 -0500 (EST), Christopher Hicks wrote:

> I'm working on setting up a local Fedora yum mirror.  Eventually I figured
> out that I needed to be rsync fedora.us instead of fedora (oopsie).  Is
> there an explanation somewhere of why these two things are seperate?  

The answer is somewhere on http://fedora.us and http://fedora.redhat.com
Not hidden well. ;)

> Also, now I'm presented with a slew of different parts of the repository:
> 
>  RPMS.k12ltsp/           20-Jul-2003 14:33      -  
>  RPMS.os/                06-Nov-2003 01:07      -  
>  RPMS.stable/            11-Feb-2004 23:32      -  
>  RPMS.testing/           11-Feb-2004 13:04      -  
>  RPMS.unstable/          06-Feb-2004 14:21      -  
>  RPMS.updates-testing/   12-Feb-2004 02:20      -  
>  RPMS.updates/           12-Feb-2004 02:17      -  
> 
> os, k12ltsp, updates and updates-testing make sense, but what are stable, 
> unstable, and testing for?

"stable, unstable, testing" are the add-ons tree from fedora.us
"os, updates, update-testing" are mirrors of download.fedora.redhat.com

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