Hi, Currently you must be running something along the lines of createrepo ..../linux/scientific/52/i386 to generate the YUM metadata? Please could you consider adding a '-d' option as well. createrepo -d ..../linux/scientific/52/i386 this creates all the existing meta data but also the sqlite files as well. The advantage of this is the subsequent yum queries are significantly faster. Clearly the same would have to be applied for all sl5x repositories to be sensible. The other reason is that the "mergerepos" script used by very recent versions of koji would then be able to make use of the SL repositories as an external repository. Unfortunately the -d option is not available in the sl4 version of createrepo nor does yum make any use of those files. For the koji reasons above though the sqlite data would be useful but clearly I understand why you may not want to do that. Many Thanks. Steve -- Steve_Traylen