what about something like this for the yum.conf file [main] ... [repo1] name=foo baseurl=url:// includeonly=foo* bar* baz* exclude=foo-devel score=20 disable=0 [repo2] name=bar baseurl=url:// includeonly=bar* quux* score=30 disable=0 [repo3] name=temp off baseurl=url:// disable=1 defaults would be: includeonly all exclude none score=0 disable=0 this doesn't address drawing a package only from one repository yet. -sv