fun with RPMs

[Rahul Sundaram]

Michael Klinosky wrote:
> I've been trying to fix a repository issue on a F8 machine. I was given
> a 'teach you how to fish' version of the process; I made some progress,
> but now I'm stumped. The advice was to find the RPM for this release, 
> and find the /etc/yum.repos.d file.
> 
> I *think* that I found the RPM; on the dvd, in the directory 'Packages' 
> is "rpm-4.4.2.2-3.fc8.i386.rpm" - is that the file I need? (For a 
> download, it's .../os/Packages.)
> 
> I opened it with the archive manager. My problem is that I can't find 
> that repos file.
> 
> What's the story?

The repository files are not part of the RPM package. Usually it is part 
of some <foo>-release package where foo is the name of the repository. 
In Fedora, it is in the fedora-release RPM package.

Rahul