Re: Fedora Extras RPMs for FC4 + apt-get

On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 20:09 -0300, Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> could someone please share the apt-get repository configuration
> necessary to install/update Fedora Extras RPMs for FC4? I tried
> downloading their own version of apt-get
> (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/apt-0.5.15cnc7-2.i386.rpm),
> but it fails with this:
> 
> ~/tmp apt-get update
> Fetching list of repositories/mirrors...
> E: Failed to fetch mirror list file:
> 
> So I reverted back to apt-0.5.15cnc6-4.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm, but this
> version lacks the "mirror-select" feature.

This question might be better directed to fedora-extras-list.  Has been
considerable discussion on apt there of late...

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-June/msg00557.html

May want to read the entire set of threads on the topic before jumping
in.

Phil