david walcroft said: > Dave,try putting 'exclude=mplayer-gui' in your /etc/yum.conf near the > top before the 'baseurl' hey, does anyone know the limit of packages we can ignore? the reason why i ask is because several repositories produce packages already available from fedora core / fedora.us and i don't want to have then overwritten. (so you're talking a couple thousand packages). unless there's a better way to create my mirror beyond using ftpcopy (ftpcopy -x to exclude may work, but the author didn't recommend it to me) -d +( duncan brown : duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx )+ +( linux "just works" : www.linuxadvocate.net )+ -------------------------------------------------- Understatement of the century: "Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones" - Linus Torvalds, August 1991 --------------------------------------------------