yum error of extras

[Brian Millett]

Seth, having added
[pre-extras]
name=Pre Extras
baseurl=http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/3/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

I looked to see what was available, then tried to update.

Results follow:
.....
--> 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/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 219, in
buildTransaction
    (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 187, in
resolveDeps
    (checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = self._processReq(dep)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 271, in
_processReq
    CheckDeps, missingdep = self._requiringFromTransaction(requiringPkg,
requirementTuple, errormsgs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 420, in
_requiringFromTransaction
    provSack = self.whatProvides(needname, needflags, needversion)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 65, in
whatProvides
    (r_e, r_v, r_r) = rpmUtils.miscutils.stringToVersion(version)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpmUtils/miscutils.py", line 307,
in stringToVersion
    epoch = string.atol(verstring[:i])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/string.py", line 419, in atol
    return _long(s, base)
ValueError: invalid literal for long(): %{epoch}

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