"JN" == John Newbigin <jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au> JN> The easiest workaround I found was to add reposdir= JN> to your /etc/yum.conf [main] section. JN> This means you can't add other repos into that directory JN> but I don't normally do that anyway. Good if you don't, but if you wanted to, say, also use the RPMForge repositories, their package installs new .repo files into /etc/yum.repos.d. I'd imagine that most yumconf packages would do the same, as /etc/yum.repos.d is the standard location for those packages. Claire *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Claire Connelly cmc at math.hmc.edu Systems Administrator (909) 621-8754 Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20061011/3bb0030d/attachment-0007.sig>