Where do you get the fedora extras from?

[Mark Bradbury]

good to know but real soon now 2 and 1/2 weeks ago doesn't seem like
real soon now


On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:51:49 +0100, Féliciano Matias
<feliciano.matias at free.fr> wrote:
> Le vendredi 10 décembre 2004 à 21:08 +0930, Mark Bradbury a écrit :
> > Hi All
> >
> > I see threads on this mailing about what games should be included in
> > FC4 and responses that say they are included all ready in extras. I
> > was just wondering where is this FC3 extras? I have looked at
> > fedora.us but the last entry on the web page seems to be Sept. 19. I
> > had a look in the
> > main repository for FC3 extras and its empty.
> 
> From rom my archive :
> 
>         De: Warren Togami <wtogami at xxx.xxx>
>         Répondre à: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
>         À: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
>         Objet: fedora.us and Extras FC3 Status
>         Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:25:04 -1000 (mer, 04:25 CET)
> 
>         Enough people were confused about the situation, so I am making this
>         interim anouncement.
> 
>         download.fedora.us for FC3 will only replicate from
>         download.fedora.redhat.com for convenience of apt users. yum users
>         should use official download.fedora.redhat.com mirrors which are twice
>         as plentiful.
> 
>         Currently the RPMS.extras directory is empty, because redhat's
>         infrastructure for the Extras relaunch is not done yet. We're *really*
>         close now with build servers in the rack and CVS in configuration and
>         heavy testing. Lots of tweaking and labor still pending. Don't ask
>         for ETA. If we have to answer questions, it will slow us down further.
> 
>         Extras when built will be simultaneously available for i386 and x86_64
>         (both supported FC3 archs) and distributed in
>         download.fedora.redhat.com. fedora.us will automatically replicate from
>         those directories for apt users.
> 
>         Details about CVS, contribution legal forms, governance, and development
>         process & policies will be revealed when this relaunch happens.
> 
>         Warren Togami
> 
> 
> 
> > Livna.org's website says
> > that fedora.us has not yet finished rebuilding their packages even
> > thou freshrpms, dag and have rebuilt theirs and we are almost 1/4 of
> > the way though the next release cycle.
> >
> > I would prefer not to use freshrpm and others as there always seems to
> > be conflicts with fedora base fedora.us and livna.org.
> >
> > so basically I'm asking what should I have in my fedora.us-extras.repo
> > to get these "extras"
> >
> > many thanks
> > mab
> >
> 
> 
>