Johnny - Thanks for that. It did mostly work - it wasn't keen on installing the RPM you pointed to, but once it did the distro swap worked and the system is now only using 8-stream as its repositories. Thanks P. > sure .. you can manually add the one repo required to manually do the > swap command .. > > Or maybe just install this package and then remove the other one: > > you want: > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8- stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/centos-stream-repos-8-2.el8.noarch.rpm > > installed first > > Then remove centos-repos > > Or you could manually create a CentOS-Stream-BaseOS.repo (you could even > name it test.repo and remove it later once switched) this will work: > > [baseos] > name=CentOS Stream $releasever - BaseOS > mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$stream&arch=$basearch &repo=BaseOS&infra=$infra > #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/$contentdir/$stream/BaseOS/$basearch/ os/ > gpgcheck=1 > enabled=1 > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-centosofficial > > > in /etc/yum.repos.d/<somename>.repo > > then once the distro-sync command works, remove <somaname.repo> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos