On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 11:33:30 -0500, A. Rick Anderson <a_rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.