I don't know anything about changing prefs for "Available Software Sites".

But, it is definitely possible to fetch remote repositories using just the
raw P2 API.

This blog post does a pretty good job describing how.
http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/tutorials/eclipse-p2-tutorial-managing-metadata/

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On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 3:58 AM, Pradeep Balachandran <prade...@in.ibm.com>
wrote:

> I would like to know whether there are APIs to get all entries and remove
> entries from "Available Software Sites" pref store.
>
> I can of course load up the p2 repository and look into the code (as
> mentioned in [1] ). Thought I will check here first.
>
> BTW, this is required because when WTP accesses adapters from the
> internet, those sites get added to this list which shouldn't be (see [2]).
> So, if there is a p2 API to fetch remote repositories without adding the
> URI to the "Available Software Sites" list, that should help too. In the
> absence of that we will need to deal with the pref store directly (via
> APIs). This query was posted on the forum [3] but no responses so far.
>
> [1] https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/38712/
> [2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=487917
> [3] https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/1726988/#msg_1726988
>
> Pradeep
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