This would not help me, because the machine that has access to the net and the yum repos is not the machine that is out of date. I don't want to expose the out-of-date machine to the net until it has been updated (feeling paranoid). I guess I should dredge around on the yum site to figure out how to diff the fc7 original rpms and the current rpms. Dave On 11/5/07, John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > apt-get, on Debian, has the "--print-uris" switch just for this purpose. > It prints a list of URIs for the packages needed to bring _this_ box up > to date, then you can take that list to someplace else and shove into wget.