Mike Stankovic wrote: > That is from the bad-old-fedora days when connecting > to remote servers over inconsistent connections was > the order of the day. CentOS isnt Fedora, so lets not try and offer advice based on non-CentOS experiences. if you must - label it to be such. > Kudos for CentOS which rids me of this menace. > > Still 4.0 -> 4.3 is a big upgrade and selinux/yum/apt > have all changed. I dont see how that is relevant in this case.... selinux wont change any customised policy you might have in place. yum updates in the transactionset fine there is no apt included in the base distro > On most of my systems I make changes to the default > config so perhaps my case is unique. most people make changes / config tweaks to software they use... thats why the .rpmnew and .rpmsave are a good thing !! you might want to read up on package policy and tree policy on CentOS a bit. you seem much confused between Fedora and CentOS -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq