As a side issue, I not that the default /etc/yum.conf installed by the yum-2.0.1-1mdk.rpm is setup to use redhat repositories. :-) See below. Perhaps this should be changed to at least use the Mandrake 9.2 repository as an inital default. Cheers, Nick [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 [base] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$base arch/ [updates] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasev er/ On Thursday 15 Jan 2004 14:01, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Nicholas Brown <nicbrown@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > (No, I'm not trying to start a yum v urpm holy war, so please, no > > flames.) > > Without an holy war, I'd like to know why you be interested in > yum since urpmi is available and easy for cooker?