yum problem with fedora.us repos

Christian Hauser c.hauser at active.ch
Sun Nov 14 17:45:45 UTC 2004


Justin Georgeson wrote:
> A couple of things. Fedora.us hasn't, last time I checked, built any
> Extras for FC3 yet. As you can see from their download site, they are
> changing from stable/testing/unstable to just Extras, so you'll need
> to update your config to reflect that.
> 
> The stuff your looking for won't be in fedora.us, it is/will be at
> livna.org, though.

Thanks.

> Regarding yum.conf, the new recommended way is to have a separate
> <packager>.repo file in /etc/yum.repo.d for each repo you use. So you
> might add a file fedora.us-extras.repo in /etc/yum.repo.d for that
> repo.

So yum doesn't care anymore about yum.conf and only uses 
/etc/yum.repo.d/*.repo files?

> Curious, why do you have multiple urls listed like that? Is it a
> way to specify your own set of mirrors to rotate through?

No, I just copied it from fedorafaq.org or some other place and never 
changed these lines.

Christian.




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