On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:39:15 -0600, David Hoffman <dhoffman2004@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > By the way, here is a copy of my file. I don't remember where I got it from, but it works for me: My file is called fedora-extras.repo and is located in /etc/yum.repos.d [extras] name=Fedora Extras - $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/$releasever/$basearch/ http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/extras/$releasever/$basearch/ http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/ http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/ # http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1
