hi, yum-3.2.27-12 based on James's build of yum from EL6 on EL5 is now available on the c5-testing repo. Feel free to give it a shot and feedback is very welcome - even if its a case of 'it works'. There is quite a list of changes from 3.2.22-26 to 3.2.27-12, you can get an overview here : http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases Regards, - KB