With yum-2.0.4 running on my Mandrake 9.2 system, in /etc/yum.conf I have: distroverpkg=mandrake-release /etc/mandrake-release is: Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 When I run "yum list base", it has 9.2 for $releasever (correct) and i386 for $basearch (incorrect). As a guess, it's a parsing problem, but I don't really know. Is this my error or yours? David