William Hooper wrote: > So don't rsync it. Pull the RPMs from your test > machine's yum cache and make your own repo. Les Mikesell wrote: > That's actually the most sensible suggestion so far. @-PPP > Is there a generic automation for this? @-PPP > Yum over ssh or something that doesn't take additional > setup/infrastructure for every variation of Linux > distributions or architecture I might like to use? @-PPP I'm at a loss for words now. I think that's basically what everyone was saying earlier. Take one system, and use the RPMs in its YUM cache. It's straight-forward and easy to do. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)