Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Dec 16 21:07:55 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 15:04 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 14:00 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > So how do I get it?
> > Pre-Extras is currently hosted on the FedoraProject.org website, and is
> > available at:
> > 
> > 	http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/3/
> > 
> 
> Out of curiosity, why another domain name instead of something like
> "extras.fedora.redhat.com"?
> 
> > It is available as a YUM repository, and an entry like the following
> > would suffice (in /etc/yum.conf):
> > 
> > [pre-extras]
> > name=Pre Extras
> > baseurl=http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/3/$basearch/
> > gpgcheck=1
> > 
> 
> I was unable to setup up2date with this repo, using $ARCH instead of
> $basearch and also explicitly specifying i386 in the path. The error was
> that headers/header.info could not be found.
> 
> What must I do to use this repo with up2date?
> 

I'm fixing that now.

give it about 10 minutes - then it will be all set.
-sv





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