Does fedora.us support Fedora Core 3 (2.92)?

[stodge]

Does anyone know if the yum repository at fedora.us supports Fedora Core 3 (2.92) yet?

Thanks

[jale2ice]

Not until Fedora Core 3 is officially released.

[foolish]

Third party packages will only support stable core releases, as these are the releases users are using. The only people using test releases are those who help in the testing of core packages, right?

[LordMorgul]

While both of the above are true.. I am testing and using a number of packages built for FC2 from fedora.us. It is important that if you do this, you are aware that packages you add could be CAUSING bugs you see. As such.. you should not report bugs until you can verify that fedora.us packages are not to blame (if you can't do that, then SPECIFICALLY mention that fedora.us FC2 packages are present and name any that may potentially interfere when reporting the bug).

Now, down to business:
(root, add this to /root/.bashrc)

# fedora extras yum configuration
alias "yumext"="yum -c /etc/yum.conf.ext"

Copy this code text and place it in the file /etc/yum.conf.ext, you will have to create this file of course.

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum.ext
debuglevel=2
errorlevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=fedora-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=0
usecachedb=1
retries=10

###################
## Fedora Extras ##
###################

[fedora-stable]
name=Fedora.us Extras (Stable)
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.stable
http://fedora.quicknet.nl/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.stable
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.stable
http://fedora.mirror.sdv.fr/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.stable
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.stable
gpgcheck=1

[fedora-unstable]
name=Fedora.us Extras (Unstable)
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.unstable
http://fedora.mirror.sdv.fr/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.unstable
http://fedora.quicknet.nl/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.unstable
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.unstable
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.unstable
gpgcheck=1

[fedora-testing]
name=Fedora.us Extras (Testing)
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.testing
http://fedora.quicknet.nl/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.testing
http://fedora.mirror.sdv.fr/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.testing
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.testing
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.testing
gpgcheck=1

###############
## Livna.org ##
###############

[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/2/$basearch/yum/stable/RPMS
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/2/$basearch/yum/stable/RPMS
gpgcheck=1

[livna-unstable]
name=Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/2/$basearch/yum/unstable/RPMS
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/2/$basearch/yum/unstable/RPMS
gpgcheck=1

[livna-testing]
name=Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/2/$basearch/yum/testing/RPMS
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/2/$basearch/yum/testing/RPMS
gpgcheck=1

#************************************************* *******************

Source the root .bashrc with source /root/.bashrc (as root naturally), and then use the command yumext just as you would use yum. The repositories in this config are capable of using the new style yum repo metadata, so you should have no problem with them downloading.

A word of caution: Install ONLY what you need to make life managable while testing! If you use test3 on a primary desktop system as I do you will appreciate the ability to install mp3 support, anjuta, bluefish, all kinds of nifty apps, but keep these to a bare minimum to maintain the viability of your testing. The fedora extras repo is configured here to keep the packages and headers separate to help with knowing what you have installed and what you haven't (yum and rpm can both tell you this directly as well, grep outputs for the fdr or lvn nametags).

[superbnerd]

T have also used some packages from fc2 for fc3t3. Mostly multimedia like xmms-mp3 and mplayer. They work flawlessly. I wander if, since fc3t3 is not such a drastic upgrade as fc1 to fc2 was, most of fc2's packages will be compatible with fc3. This would be great as it would mean fedora is starting to stabalize. It would also make it more eligible for compatibility with the LSB (http://www.linuxbase.org/). One day, rpms from other distros may work as well as the rpm for fc2 do on fc3.