Not sure if there is something wrong with centosi5, but looks like my system synced with it and lost all the updates it had just downloaded earlier. Snippet from a yum update against my mirror after the update: Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have: Current : Thu Apr 14 13:13:40 2011 Downloaded: Wed Apr 6 17:10:24 2011 Thanks. Matt Ruzicka | Senior Systems Engineer | VCP4, RHCSA CISP 419.724.5345 office 419.205.2499 cell 419.724.3547 24x7 support support at cisp.com | www.cisp.com