Alternatively, a method to allow drop-in repo URLs in a .d directory that could be populated via fedora-release or similar.
We can easily do that. It just needs to drop into /etc/yum.repos.d as fedora.repo (or similar) and we could then have the devel fedora-release package contain the devel tree urls.
the /etc/yum.repos.d dir already exists and you can put whatever you want there. I would almost encourage one pointing to fedora-extras with enabled=0 in the repository stanza. So people can turn it on (from the cli or in the file) if they choose, but are not required to do so. I'll work on compiling the list I got.
However, I'm leery of enabling a config in fedora-release for yum without doing it for up2date too. :/
fine by me - I'd suggest a common config format but that doesn't work all that well with these apps. I'm in for a blocker for FC4 being a yum-backend-based gui interface, but I'm going to need more help, esp on the interface.
Should be fixed in fedora-release-3-x.
I'm adding mirrors to the mirrorlists as I see them: http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/mirrorlists/
Mirror lists imported.