Hello, As I was looking at the yum.cron, getting ready for S.L. 4.2 I saw that ... well ... it was looking pretty ugly, especially the part that builds the temporary yum.conf. I know that this has been my baby from the start, but I'm up for some idea's if anyone has any. Especially using yum 2.4, that has all sorts of options, there is probrubly some better ways of doing things. There is one feature that has to remain the same. It must exclude kernel*, openafs*, and GFS*. Those have always been excluded from automatic updates, and I would like to keep it that way. Thanks Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group __________________________________________________