Hi Alex,
SL 5 does not translate to Fedora Core 5.  It doesn't translate to 
Fedora at all, but the closest would be Fedora Core 6.

So, where would you get things out of Fedora Extra's for SL5 or SL4.
Well, there is a new Fedora project called EPEL, which is basically the 
extra's stuff for RHEL.

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/

It's still very new, but it has alot of stuff in it.  I don't know how 
it compares (as far as compatibility) with the repositories we already 
have (dag and atrpms).

But ... after looking, it doesn't have either xemacs or seamonkey, so 
maybe your way is the way to get it ... currently.  Just know that if a 
year, you won't be getting any updates for them, and seamonkey often has 
vulnerabilities.

Troy

Alex Finch wrote:
>  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


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