How would you shrink Fedora? [LWN.net]

How would you shrink Fedora?

Posted Feb 24, 2005 20:29 UTC (Thu) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
In reply to: How would you shrink Fedora? by Tet
Parent article: How would you shrink Fedora?

> I think the "even" is a little unwarranted there, particularly wrt Gnumeric

Correct, sorry. I use Gnumeric myself, prefer it to OOo Calc.

Heck, they maybe should have taken out OOo and left Abiword/gnumeric. Although Abiword did crash nastily on me a couple months ago, leaving my file in malformed XML that I had to fix by hand!

Looks now like the DID remove Abiword/Gnumeric, which seems like a mistake to me. Oh well.

Regarding Extras, I've never even been able to get YUM to use them correctly. Always get an error...

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How would you shrink Fedora?

Posted Feb 25, 2005 5:03 UTC (Fri) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]

What error does yum give you on extras? I use them all the time with yum b/c I have to make sure these things work a little bit. :)

How would you shrink Fedora?

Posted Feb 25, 2005 15:40 UTC (Fri) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link]

Setting up Repo: extras
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: extras
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from extras: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

And this is from a yum.conf that I took right out of ... uh, now I forget where! But it supposedly works for others.

How would you shrink Fedora?

Posted Feb 25, 2005 15:43 UTC (Fri) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]

Post the repository section for the extras set you have. I bet it's not right.
or better yet - ask about this on fedora-extras-list.