fedora extras not showing up on my yum update

[David Hoffman]

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 11:33:30 -0500, A. Rick Anderson
<a_rick at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I've got a cron job running yum update every night (actually, early
> morning).  I created a file (fedora.extras) from
> http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/PRE-EXTRAS and placed it in my
> /etc/yum.repos.d directory.  I added the checksum keys, as suggested.
> However, a review of my root email for the last several days seems to
> show that I am not syncing with the extras repository:
> 

> What am I missing?

Change the name of your "fedora.extras" file to "fedora.extras.repo".

According to /etc/yum.conf:
"PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo"

I think the extension is important.