Primary Legacy distribution (was: Re: apt/yum configuration?)

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Jan 5 15:38:52 UTC 2004


> Well, partly it doesn't but partly it does (it seems to me after some weeks
> of absence) : It looks like it was decided to include/merge all the legacy
> packages into the download.fedora.us tree (btw, the link on the
> www.fedoralegacy.org web page is missing http://), so the recommended apt
> and yum packages for using "Fedora Legacy" will in fact be downloaded from
> fedora.us, although in the "legacy" module, but IMHO this might still be
> confusing to users. Please do correct me if I'm wrong.

You see, now I'm confused :)

I thought all the legacy stuff was just:

http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/$releasever/i386/RPMS.legacy/

So all someone needs to do is add that to their yum.conf as a baseurl
and they get the packages in there.

does that explain it or am I out in left field.

-sv






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