How to set up mirrors in Smart Package Manager?

[oleksandr korneta]

on 01/30/2007 08:58 PM Claude Jones wrote:
> On Tue January 30 2007, Kam Leo wrote:
>> On 1/29/07, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue January 30 2007, oleksandr korneta wrote:
>>>> indeed. It is added by
>>>>
>>>> smart channel --add
>>>>
>>>> and it does not go into /etc/smart/channel
>>>> I'll keep digging.
>> I use "locate". I'm not at my computer at the moment; but if I recall
>> correctly, the data is stored at /var/lib/smart/...
>>
>>> I just use the channel edit interface. There are some decent instructions
>>> in the faq on the smart site for how to fill in the various fields, or
>>> you can just compare the fields to one of the existing ones. It's really
>>> easy once you get the syntax...it would be nice if there was a file
>>> somewhere that I could copy from box to box, since I run a number of
>>> Fedora boxes - let us know if you figure it out
>>>
> 
> I found that a long time ago. But that folder does not have channel 
> configuration info, it's got the actual files it downloads from the various 
> channels in it - I just double checked myself. Maybe I just don't understand 
> what I'm looking at. 

I found that a while ago too, but this is not what we are looking for. 
This are file storing repositories metadata, as described here 
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/

We might need to ask the developer.


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Oleksandr Korneta

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