Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Michael A. Peters]

On 12/16/2004 11:00:26 AM, 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/
> 
> 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
> 
> There is a temporary Pre Extras GPG key, which all packages are  
> signed
> with. The fingerprint:
> 
> pub  1024D/1AC70CE6 2004-12-14 Fedora Pre Extras Release
> <pre-extras at fedoraproject.org>
>      Key fingerprint = 5389 DD00 C5BC 5168 12B4  3272 82ED 9504 1AC7
> 0CE6
> sub  1024g/4E1A9D43 2004-12-14
> 
> To import the key:
> 	
>  rpm --import  
> http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Pre-Extras
> 
> What about bugs?
> If you find bugs in the packages, report them at the Fedora Extras
> Bugzilla:

Don't know if this is a bug in the package or a bug in yum ...
during yum update, to update packages I have that are rebuilds of fc2  
src.rpms -

--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: aalib = %{epoch}:1.4.0-0.rc5.2 for package:  
aalib-devel
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 7, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 104, in main
    (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 219, in  
buildTransaction
    (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 187, in  
resolveDeps
    (checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = self._processReq(dep)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 271, in  
_processReq
    CheckDeps, missingdep = self._requiringFromTransaction 
(requiringPkg, requirementTuple, errormsgs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 420, in  
_requiringFromTransaction
    provSack = self.whatProvides(needname, needflags, needversion)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 65, in  
whatProvides
    (r_e, r_v, r_r) = rpmUtils.miscutils.stringToVersion(version)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rpmUtils/miscutils.py", line  
307, in stringToVersion
    epoch = string.atol(verstring[:i])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/string.py", line 236, in atol
    return _long(s, base)
ValueError: invalid literal for long(): %{epoch}

I'm running yum-2.1.12-1
I'll try downgrading yum to Fedora version and see if that helps.

My repositories -

3 livna's
2 JPackage's
some repositories of my own creation that are suppose to depend up  
extras and the 3 livna's