Fedora Extras available for download
Dennis Calhoun
dcalhoun at blomand.net
Thu Feb 3 07:00:23 UTC 2005
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:19:35 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
>So you're wondering what's up with Fedora Extras these days. We have an
>announcement to make.
>
><Sopwith> So what should I put in the announcement?
><|Jef|> Sopwith: that we are all deeply deeply ashamed for the delay and
>we throw ourselves on the mercy of the community and ask for forgiveness
>
>Thanks to the efforts of all the Extras contributors, you can now get
>Fedora Extras packages from the main Fedora download site at
>http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/
>
>Fedora Extras are sets of packages that augment Fedora Core but do not
>replace Fedora Core component packages. These packages, like all packages
>that are part of The Fedora Project, must conform to the legal
>requirements of the project and conform to the Fedora Extras policies.
>
>Examples of packages currently available in Fedora Extras include:
> bittorrent cfengine gqview jikes libsigc++ openslp rxvt sqlite
> starfighter zope
>with a total of over 500 packages available!
[snip]
That sounds great, but the Extras don't seem to be available from the
URL that you've shown above. All I see there is as follows;
3/ 01-Feb-2005 19:33 -
EXTRAS 02-Feb-2005 02:33 758
PRE-EXTRAS 02-Feb-2005 02:33 758
RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Extras 02-Feb-2005 17:06 2.0K
RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Pre-Extras 02-Feb-2005 17:06 2.0K
development/ 01-Feb-2005 13:21 -
testing/ 03-Feb-2005 00:46 -
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Dennis C.
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