changes in repositories

[Mikus Grinbergs]

Running 0.51 on 64-bit SuSE 10.1.  Been typing in 'smart update' at 
a terminal.  Not sure if the following is a true inference, but it 
seems to me that this describes what I saw:

When a repository's content has not had a change since the last time 
smart looked at it, what shows on my terminal is a single 'progress' 
line within the "Fetching information for ..." stanza -- that's 
o.k., I interpret it as "nothing to do".  But I believe that when 
the files associated with the URL given by the smart channel had 
been deleted from that server (i.e., "nothing to work with"), what 
showed on my terminal was the __same__ as for "nothing to do".

By looking at the server with a browser, I discovered that a 10.1 
repository (but not 10.2) had been moved to a different directory 
tree.  But I had not been alerted to this move when I regularly ran 
smart (with its channel pointing to the old 10.1 location).  If what 
I have described is how smart currently behaves, would you please 
add a specific error message when the location pointed to by the 
channel formerly held a repository, but no longer does.

Thanks,  mikus