Carl and Johnny: thanks for the pointers. On Monday 27 February 2006 11:00, Carl Hartung wrote:

Look in the directories below /var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager

Wow. I had seen those dirs while searching, but had not grokked what was going on. I was looking for a single config file; evidently there is no such thing. What I really wanted was a way to back up the list of URLs for the sources I had defined, since it has taken me some time to get that list together. Here's how I got that list: $ grep -h URL /var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/*/*/description You can redirect the output to a file to save your list. Note: a more correct form of the above command would be: $ grep -h URL /var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_*/DESCRIPTION/description This is better because it is more specific about exactly which files we want to look in. But the shorter form should be safe (at least until SUSE adds another file named 'description' to those directories). Warm regards, Robert

On Monday 27 February 2006 12:24, Brad Bourn wrote:

You can use Yast itself to import/export...

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/16683.html

Thanks Brad, great tip. The "export" script on the page Brad links to boils down to: installation_sources -s | while read line; do line="${line##*(}"; echo ${line%%)*}; done | sed '/Installation Sources/d' And there's an import script too; how convenient.