I installed Fedora 7. I had all my CODECS working in Fedora Core 6 via instructions:

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc6.html
http://www.my-guides.net/en/index.ph...ill+be+deleted.
http://zod.freshrpms.net/



Is their a modification to the repository listing to allow me to utilize the Fedora Core 6 repositories? OR are their new repositories I can reference which will allow install of the codecs we all know and love.

First FC7 is not released yet so some of the third party repos are set to install anything.
Second to answer your question, yes you will have to edit some of the third party /etc/yum.repos.d configuration files a bit. taking the freshrpms repo file as an example;

[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Core 6 - $basearch - Freshrpms
mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/6/mirrors-freshrpms
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms
gpgcheck=1

Yes there is a simple modification, that you can use
in the livna, dries and freshrpms files that are in /etc/yum.repos.d
edit each one and change $releasever to a 6

Fc7 sets the $releasever and my making my change, it is fixed to pick up the files for fc6.

I did not check if I can just simply put a line containing
$releasever=6
before the lines with http
try that first with freshrpms and if it works do it everywhere else and update this topic

That is a more elegant way to fix the repository statement. I am trying to balance day job and getting linux up on its feet at the same time so... It worked:>)

Here was my /etc/
*********
[root@wizej broken]# diff /etc/yum.repos.d/broken/freshrpms.repo.orig /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo
3,5c3,4
< name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Freshrpms
< #baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/
< mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-freshrpms
---
> name=Fedora Core $basearch - Freshrpms
> mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/6/mirrors-freshrpms
********

I modified the original freshrmp repositor to reflect '$releasever=6'

Example: /etc/yum.repos.d/
# $Id: freshrpms.repo 3341 2005-06-28 18:40:26Z thias $
[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever=6 - $basearch - Freshrpms
#baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/
mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-freshrpms
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms
gpgcheck=1


I don't get any errors on a 'yum update' so I browsed out their and found a small package to install which would pull from http://ayo.us5.freshrpms.net/fedora/...reshrpms/RPMS/ but when I attempted update, it found the packages but errored on downloading them:

Downloading Packages:
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linu...rors-freshrpms error was
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 12:24:58 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.4 (Unix)
Content-Length: 313
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1


Error Downloading Packages:
snes9express - 1.42-3.fc6.i386: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: freshrpms
snes9x - 1.50-1.fc6.i386: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: freshrpms


I will have to play with this a bit to see if I can come up with a way to fix this

PS: Do we have any news on RedHat's stance on directing the elimination of extras? Does this mean that they will merge in things like codecs and acrobate etc into the base repository? Somehow I doubt that the Sharks will let that fly.

This works, feel free to cut and paste the repo file should be in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and have a name like freshrpms.repo or added to and existing file in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory;

[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Core 6 - $basearch - Freshrpms
mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/6/mirrors-freshrpms
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms
gpgcheck=1

The freshrpms repo is disabled (enable=0) but one can always do:

yum install foo --enablerepo=freshrpms

I have Livna "development" repo enabled in F7T4 and all is well in audio/video land here.