Fedora :: Yum Repo To Smart PM Channel Convertor Script

Now the file upload feature is working, I have added the correctly indented php file as an attachment on post no: 3. The attached php script will create any missing smart channel files from the equivalent yum repo files. Any new smart channel files will be placed in a /new-smart-channels subdir of the yum repos directory.

Installation
Copy the attached php CLI script below to a new file, called create-smart-channels.php.
Change the permissions to something like:
# chown root:root create-smart-channels.php
# chmod 755 create-smart-channels.php

Then place the script in the directory that contains your yum repo files, usually /etc/yum.repos.d/

If you have set any open_basedir restrictions in /etc/php.ini, you will also need to add '/etc/smart/channels/:' to the search paths to allow create-smart-channels.php to read the contents of the /etc/smart/channels/ directory.

Warning:
Do not allow php access to the whole of the /etc directory. This could be a security issue. Whatever access restrictions are set with open_basedir (if any), you should override these in your httpd.conf file, to restrict apache's php module to only allow access to php files under your apache's document root. To do this, use something like this in your httpd.conf file:

<Directory />
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all

# these are the only directories which the apache PHP module can
# have access to. This setting overrides the settings in the
# global php.ini file, which applies to the CLI version of PHP .....