Found it.
Just a simple typo in yum .conf:
exclude=freetype*
This is the default, if you *make* this bigger *yum* won't see if the metadata # is newer on the remote and so you'll "gain" the bandwidth of not having to
I need to exclude freetype as I compiled my own version (with BCI enabled). I apparently removed the # on the line below. And that does not give an error message. It simply excludes "This" "is"... and "make" and "yum".
Thanks for all replies.
Theo