fedora extras not showing up on my yum update

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 14:44 -0500, A. Rick Anderson wrote:
> David Hoffman wrote: 
> > On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 11:33:30 -0500, A. Rick Anderson
> > <a_rick at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >   
> > > <>I've got a cron job running yum update every night (actually,
> > > early
> > > morning). I created a file (fedora.extras) from
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/PRE-EXTRAS and placed it in my
> > > /etc/yum.repos.d directory. I added the checksum keys, as
> > > suggested.
> > > However, a review of my root email for the last several days seems
> > > to
> > > show that I am not syncing with the extras repository:What am I
> > > missing?
> > Change the name of your "fedora.extras" file to "fedora.extras.repo".
> > 
> > According to /etc/yum.conf:
> > "PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo"
> > 
> > I think the extension is important.
> >   
> I missed that comment in the yum.conf file.  I added the extension and
> now it is working.  It might be a good idea to add that little tid-bit
> to the instructions on http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/PRE-EXTRAS.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> However, now I am getting the following error:
> liboil-0.3.0-1.i386.rpm   100% |=========================| 3.1 kB
> 00:00
> ---> Package liboil.i386 0:0.3.0-1 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: liboil-0.2.so.0 for package: gstreamer-
> plugins
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: missing dep: liboil-0.2.so.0 for pkg gstreamer-plugins

You can get liboil from the freshrpms repo:
http://heidelberg.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=689

I'm rather surprised to see a dependency on an external repo/package in
fedora-extras.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>