Beware Fedora 6.0

[alan]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, bob wrote:

> I tried to use the following
>
> The easiest way to install freshrpms.net packages is to click here 
> <http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm> 
> from within firefox, choose to open with Install Software (the default) then 
> go to /Add/Remove Software/ from the main menu, where new applications will 
> be available in the list.
>
>
> I have fedora 6.0 and now my add/remove software will not come up, because 
> it's looking for something at freshrpms.
>
>
> Beware of freshrpms and fedora 6.0

That is true of any repository that does not have a FC6/devel branch. 
Actually it is looking for a repository with a version number of something 
like FC5.92 or similar.  Until the official non-moving target is released, 
I don't expect that to change.

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