On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:35:44PM +0100, Daniel Pfenniger wrote: > $ rpm -Fvh [some subset of the available rpms] > ... why don't you just create a local repository (with all your $arc.rpm) and tell yum to use it? see createrepo/yum-arch to generate the metadata and let yum do the right thing? for instance if all your rpms are in /path/to/repo yum-2.0.x yum-arch /path/to/repo and add to /etc/yum.conf [local] name=local repo baseurl=file:///path/to/repo gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 yum-2.4: createrepo /path/to/repo and add: /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo [local] name=local repo baseurl=file:///path/to/repo gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 just my 2 cents Tru