On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 23:02 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > The annoying parts for me are that after finding the things I want, > yum repeats the metadata download for every install step and goes out > of its way to avoid allowing the site proxy cache from supplying it or > the rpms. It used to do that for me, but hasn't for a while. It reparses what it's got, which isn't too quick, but doesn't refetch the data. Perhaps you want to play with caching tweaks in the yum.conf? -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.