Repositories, mirrors, and sources?

[Halfnote5]

Hi there!

I'm playing around with Fedora for some clients who're using it, and being that I usually use SuSE (where I've been pretty bad about it by only using the GUI under Yast) or Ubuntu (apt-get), I'm a little sketchy on the whole yum thing, and where to get sources.

Don't get me wrong, since I installed RPM fusion, it works great, by and large, but I was wondering where/how to add other repositories and even if there are any.

I found an interesting tutorial wherein it stated you can wget a .repo file to a directory, and it'll add it, which seems nice, and makes a lot of sense, but beyond that (and after 2 days of googling on and off in my spare time) I can't seem to find anyplace that HAS .repo files.

I'd like to add a couple mirrors (JAIST and HEAnet come to mind when I'm working with Debian, Mint or Ubuntu. Or SuSE, come to think of it).

I've found that there's some sort of tool where people are building their own "repositories" of their collected packages, but I was sort of hoping to add a couple highly comprehensive mirrors and to be done with it.

Again, there's very little I haven't been able to simply "Yum install xyz" or find or build from source. The real reason I'm asking is so that I understand the package management system, and Fedora's repository schema better than I currently do.

Cheers

[nonamedotc]

There is some information about third party repositories in Fedora documentation - Third party repositories.

Generally, the repo files are available from the rpositories webpage. I have, so far, not had to look for repo files from a entirely different source for Fedora.

Building repositories is usually done so that you do not have connect to the internet to download packages - basically maintain a local repository instead of a remote one ...

Hope this gives some direction! Cheers ..

[BBQdave]

Originally Posted by Halfnote5

Don't get me wrong, since I installed RPM fusion, it works great, by and large, but I was wondering where/how to add other repositories and even if there are any.

You pretty much have it, RPM Fusion free and/or RPM Fusion nonfree.
Too, with some applications, I install directly from the software creator. A couple examples are Adobe and Fluendo, rpm packages that I obtain directly from them.

[Halfnote5]

Sounds simpler than I was trying to make it. Thanks! = )

[bob]

Really simple method: Click on the Fedora Set Up Guides (yellow link above) and have AutoPlus add the repos while also adding the codecs and packages that you probably want.