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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