> I've found urpmi quite useful. I had to upgrade a number of packages > just to meet yum's requirements. After that, "yum upgrade" did load a > bundle of 237 packages to complete the Mandrake 9.1 to 9.2 transition. > That was pretty slick. In the 3 weeks since, "yum check-update" hasn't > found anything to do :-( Check your /var/log/yum.log - you might have yum running nightly from the cron job and therefore yum check-update run manually would seldomly find things. -sv