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 - -- Dennis C.
