since i was the one who apparently whined sufficiently about a more comprehensive yum tutorial, i'm about to take another look at rgb's draft. one suggestion based on a glance at the ToC -- all the client stuff should come *before* anything related to the server. the majority of readers are going to want to just use the client functionality of yum, and only then will some of them continue on to perhaps setting up their own servers. this is a pretty standard chronological ordering -- client stuff first, then server. more later. rday