Adding repositories to Fedora 5

While testing Fedora Core 5, FC5, on coLinux I added some repositories in search of TightVNC and other software. I added:

• freshrpms
• dries
  

If we switch to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL, I will add Dag Wieers' RPMforge.net repository. It is one of the few that supports RHEL releases. However, he does not have support for FC5. So, I added Dries' repository, since they interoperate.

Freshrpms
To add freshrpms, download the configuration RPM:

wget http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

and install it using

rpm -Uhv freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

Dries
To add the Dries repository create an /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo file that contains

[dries]
name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/

Then import the GPG key for the repository:

wget http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.txt
rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.txt

The next time you access yum, it should update to include these repositories.

NB: There is some indication that the Extras (fedora.us) repository may need to be disabled.