fedora-extras-release

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Feb 3 07:18:53 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 02:13 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> seth vidal (skvidal at phy.duke.edu) said: 
> > Hey folks,
> >  Do we need a fedora-extras-release package with, maybe, a fedora-
> > extras-release file in /etc and a fedora-extras.repo file
> > in /etc/yum.repos.d?
> > 
> > Would that be something we should pull in?
> 
> As a container for .repo files, sure. (It could contain
> keys, too.)  As a general release distinguisher, I'm not so
> certain it has as much use. After all, people shouldn't be
> pulling from *multiple* versions, and the version of the
> repo should be pretty easy to distinguish from the package version.
> 

I was almost thinking, maybe put a fedora-extras package in fedora core.


so a user, if they so desired, could:
yum install fedora-extras

and then once it's done they have the extras repo all ready to go.

thoughts?
-sv





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