Where does the update agent keep its information

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 01:33:38 +0300, shmuel siegel 
> For reference, these are the directories that I deleted
> rm -rf bin dev selinux sys usr etc lib misc sbin tmp var

err... you deleted those system directories before doing a new fresh install.
As odd as that sounds, i guess thats a perfectly valid way to test
installer operation. And if this was a fresh install you did after
deleting those..system..directories, it makes perfect sense that
anaconda would repopulate them, since they are
well..system...directories and particularly important for the
operation of the...system.

rpm -qf /etc/

/etc/ is owned by the filesystem package, and hence when anaconda goes
to install the filesystem package...you get that directory back...and
then when anaconda goes to install up2date you get up2dates config
files inside that directory. Magically Delicious!

-jef"rpm -ql up2date"spaleta