Greetings ... Sorry I did not answer before, but was away ... >> Yum has "clean oldheaders", is it possible to ask for a "clean >>oldpackages", I would like to keep my cache around so that I could >>mirror other installs off them. >> >> > >so oldpackages would delete any packages older than the current >installed set? > Yep, that would be great, because then I could almost use my cache from one computer as a repo ... currently I backup my cache and take it with me when I do installation, so that I don't need too downloading for updates ... but it's now becoming a little big, and deleting by hand can be nightmare, and error pron ... Thanks Mailed Lee