Les Mikesell wrote: > No, that's what I want to avoid. Everyone else responding > *is* maintaining snapshot copies of repositories and I > don't think anyone should have to. Yum's view of a > repository consists of all the hdr files it has downloaded > from it. I want it to pretend that files added after > a certain time weren't there, thus creating a view of > the state of the repository at a prior time. At this moment in time, to do what you want, you have to maintain your own repository. If you want to create a custom repository and have control of it yourself, or make a snapshot of a yum repository, which is a good idea to save bandwidth if you are going to update multiple computers in one location, there is a very good program to do this easily. It is called Repo-janitor and the author's website is here: http://www.bioxray.dk/~mok/repo-janitor.php I have written a howto and have rpms here for Centos 4.1: http://smeserver.sourceforge.net/howto/RepoJanitor Hope this helps, Greg Swallow