fedora-extras-release

[Jim Cornette]

Justin Georgeson wrote:

>Matthias Saou writes:
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>>Too bad though that it seems sysconfig/rhn/ can only take info from the
>>single "sources" file, as from my understanding this means that the current
>>RHN notification tool won't automatically be aware of Extras after this
>>package is installed.
>>    
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>Add a post install script that does 
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>echo "..." >> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
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>and a post uninstall script that does 
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>grep -v "..." /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources > /tmp/sources.new
>mv /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.rpmsave
>mv /tmp/sources.new /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
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>You could add some 'if [ $? != 0 ]; ...' stuff to rollout the changes if a
>command fails, but it would mean that up2date can use Extras and the rhn_applet
>will se updates.
>
>:)
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I'd me more in favor of the script checking the 
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to see if an entry exists, then appending the 
entry into the file if there are no entries for fedora-extras. I use 
up2date a lot and use specific mirrors that I would not like to have 
bothered.

Jim

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