> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:11, William Hooper wrote: > > As others have suggested: > > Installing everything isn't a good starting point > > Yum is a more reliable after packages have been upgraded from their > > original version. Not necessarily. You can: - modify the source list - to modify yum behavior (if you don't want to work with certain repositories - like updates) - use local/cache-only mode - where it doesn't try to sync to the latest .hdr database. For eg: yum -C remove package Satish