Not vital/important for alpha-testing but a glance through the message showed... The R listed isn't the R-2.5.0 that was added as a test for 5.0 (of course our R users will no doubt be expecting 2.6.0 soon (released in October) I see no obvious reference to the yum installonlyn plugin though I suppose it might be hidden in one of the other yum packages. If not I can offer you the trivial srpm we use... Attempting to rsync over the 5rolling currently results in: rsync: send_files failed to open "/5rolling/i386/yum-conf-LQ-BWW" (in scientific): Permission denied (13) Sadly I'm likely to be unable to test the alphs much in the next few days, but I will try... -- Jon