On Wednesday 21 October 2009 21:16, Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: > That is a bit strange. I would have expected the links to be > http://server/centos/*5*/blahblah instead of having 5.3. Is > your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo still the original version or > has someone customized it to look at 5.3 specifically? /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo has this: #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 priority=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 But anyway /var/cache/yum/updates/mirrorlist.txt finally got updated and the problem has been solved. I'm still wondering why I couldn't update the file in the first place, though. -- Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca> "Yves Bellefeuille: Eterna malvenkanto en UEA" -- Heroldo Komunikas, n-ro 389