On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 14:46, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:12:40AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > > umm - yum only downloads the package headers that are either: > > 1. not already in the cache > > I understood the original question as: > > Is it possible to populate the cache before running yum for the first time? sure. download all the headers and put them in /var/cache/yum/[repoid]/headers/ -sv