Detecting configured yum repos

[Claude Jones]

On Mon November 6 2006 8:24 am, Claude Jones wrote:
> Anyhow, in some fashion, I have definitely experienced the behavior I
> described - I never manually configured a single channel on my box at work,
> but I have channels for all my repos. If this is not a feature of Smart,
> then I'm doing something else that's causing this behavior - whatever I
> did, I surre wish I could repeat it...

OK - maybe I've discovered the source of my behavior. My machine at work was 
an upgrade. I'd forgotten that significant detail - sorry. Presumably, the 
upgrade changed enough things that Smart, when opened, detected my channel 
list from earlier and asked me to acknowledge their inclusion, one by one. 

An additional source of confusion: On my home machine, I have manually 
configured the additional channels. When I look in /etc/smart/channels the 
only ones listed are the ones configured by the fedora-smart-config package. 
Where is the additional channels information stored? 

If I go to /var/lib/smart/channels I find a long list of files which includes 
pairs of .xml files and .gzip files - I suppose these are the package 
information files that are downloaded when I click the "update channels" icon 
in the toolbar. This list contains .xml and .gzip files for ALL the channels 
I've configured. Is this where the additional channels are stored? One 
directory above in /var/lib/smart is a file called "config" - Fedora doesn't 
know what type file this is, and I can't read it with any tools I can think 
of such as cat - is this where the additional channels are stored? 

Trying to understand how this works. If I remove smart, including manual 
deletion of /etc/smart, and re-install it after previously having manually 
configured the channels, I get the behavior described in my previous post. 
So, this tells me that the channels info is stored somewhere besides 
in /etc/smart - but where? 
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA