fedora-extras-release

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Feb 3 21:07:31 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 20:42 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Colin Charles wrote :
> 
> > On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 02:18 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > I was almost thinking, maybe put a fedora-extras package in fedora
> > > core.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > so a user, if they so desired, could:
> > > yum install fedora-extras
> > > 
> > > and then once it's done they have the extras repo all ready to go.
> > > 
> > > thoughts?
> > 
> > Good idea, can we have this sorted now?
> > 
> > What are thoughts on including a package into Core, *after* its been
> > released?
> > 
> > I guess this is a noble aim for FC-4 - we have a "fedora-extras" package
> > that basically provides /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo and the ones
> > in /usr/share/rhn, /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-$releasever
> 
> Maybe push it out for FC < 4 as an update? Would be nice IMHO.
> 

I got the following, terribly verbose, response from notting when I
posed the thought to him:

<notting> skvidal: worksforme


Matthias, you wanna put it together or should I?

We're thinking:
include the repos from the readme.extras at:
http://fedoraproject.org/extras/readme.extras

put them both in one file and maybe include the gpg key in %docs

-sv





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