Where does the update agent keep its information

[shmuel siegel]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 00:59, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 26 April 2004 14:47, shmuel siegel wrote:
> > I did an ovewrite install, first deleting all root directories except
> > /mnt, /root, /boot, and /home (of course I could have overlooked
> > something). Immediately upon boot, prior to connecting to the
> > internet, the update agent said that there were 43 updates available.
> > Where did it get this information from?
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources 
> 
> Test releases point to rawhide.  A bunch of pent-up rawhide changes were 
> pushed through now that the freeze is somewhat over, and you're seeing 
> those updates I would imagine.

One of us is not understanding the other. I said that I wasn't connected
to the internet. Besides /etc is one of the directories that I deleted.
Is it pre-populated by anaconda?

For reference, these are the directories that I deleted
rm -rf bin dev selinux sys usr etc lib misc sbin tmp var