Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

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?

Thanks,

-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>