On 2009-09-30 at 11:25:24, Geert Janssens wrote:
>I am not sure what you mean with "regular Red Hat repositories that
>aren't listed in .repo files".
>
>As far as I know (but my knowledge is limited) all repositories used
>by yum are defined in /etc/yum.repos.d/ or directly in /etc/yum.conf

I've not used CentOS, so i'm sure what you say is correct for that
distro. In RHEL, however, it doesn't seem to be accurate:

# yum repolist all
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
repo id            repo name                                      status
rhel-debuginfo     Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Server - i386 - Debu disabled
rhel-i386-server-5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 for 32-bit x86) enabled: 
6,138
repolist: 6,138

In case the word wrapping messes things up, that shows 2 repositories:
rhel-debuginfo (disabled) and rhel-i386-server-5 (enabled). However,
only one of them has a .repo file:

# ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
rhel-debuginfo.repo

The main Red Hat repository (rhel-i386-server-5) is not listed in a
.repo file. On RHEL, yum seems to be configured to somehow magically
know about the main Red Hat repository without it being in the config
files. So that's what i mean by repositories that aren't listed.

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