Hi, I guess you can forget or at least lower the priority of my request to have gzip timestamp nullification in the 1.0 branch. I followed jbj's advice and simply got 2.0 working by upgrading to rpm 4.1.1, installing librpm404 and replacing "/usr/bin/python" by "/usr/bin/python2" inside yum's files :-) For those interested in doing the same, all is here : http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/testing/rpm-4.1.1-1.7x/ The rpm packages are the exact ones from ftp.rpm.org (not rebuilt, original signature), librpm404 was recompiled for 7x (only 8x packages are on ftp.rpm.org) and yum is my common 2.0 source package rebuilt with : --define 'configfor rh7.3' --define 'python python2' in order to have it modified to work properly. The spec file can be found here if anyone is interested : http://freshrpms.net/packages/builds/index.html?build=yum Off to upgrade my server, and finally transfer less hdr files ;-) Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Raw Hide 20030716 running Linux kernel 2.4.20-20.1.2013.nptl Load : 1.03 0.44 0.31