Here's a quick tip.
I wanted to add xemacs and seamonkey to our test SL5 installation as they are
missing, and extensively used by our users on SL3 and 4.
I found they exist in the fedora extras repository, so I tried following the
instructions in:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/EXTRAS
This give the baseurl as:
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
However this does not work as $releasever apparently translates to 5.0 whereas the value which works is 5, so I replaced $releasever
with 5 and it worked. I was able to do
yum -y install xemacs
yum -y install seamonkey
The complete contents of my /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo is:
[extras]
name=Fedora Extras - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/$basearch/
failovermethod=priority
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Extras
hope this helps someone!
Alex
