On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 08:40, Johnny Hughes wrote: > That said, IF one has inconsistent internet connectivity, they should > definitely do large updates in chunks ... as a yum (and rpm) can cause > duplicate packages if it is interrupted after the install stage and > before the cleanup stage. With Centos 3.x I normally do a 'yum --download-only update' to pull a local copy first but the current version of yum doesn't have that option. Do you really have to rsync the whole repository now to be sure you can get a couple of updates in a transaction? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com