} } There was a distribution-packaging part of this discussion that wasn't } answered. If someone wants to bring it back on track they could explain } what you get with an 'everything' install and how to get the chroot } flavor installed. } } Also, there is a general-interest part. How many people install } private networks in such a way that essentially every local connection } will send a reverse-DNS query for their private space to the } internet root nameservers? The people who do that aren't likely } to be reading the bind mailing list... } } -- } Les Mikesell Les, i started to answer it and then thought better. i know what you asked and mean yet i just trial and error till i found what works for me re: rpm -qa | grep whatever yum whatprovides yum install yum remove etc and my servers among the "other" things you are asking or implying. yet, i have setup a lot of linux boxes over the years from slackware 0.9x thru various Redhat and others and now CentOS etc. maybe you should ask again to the CentOS devel people??? regards, - rh -- Robert Hanson Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net