Dave Burns wrote: > There might be a more elegant way to check whether the cache was > complete (yum checkupdate piped into... ?) before trying to update. Or > just have the master constantly updating and have all the rpms. At > which point you might as well make it a local mirror? Thanks for the suggestions, which I'll certainly look at. But it surprises me there is no standard way of doing this. It must be a fairly standard need nowadays.