> umm. okay hold on > you're using yum 2.0.X on a system running rpm 4.0.4? > > that's not kosher. > > you need 1.0.X on a 4.0.4 system. > > is that an RHEL 2.1 system? It's actually a RH7.3 system now that I look at the right system... And it's running yum 1.0. Rpm is version 4.0.4. We have repositories for RH 7.3 and RHEL 3 on the same system. Still, it looks like I need to upgrade yum anyway. I'll be sure to do that on the right host though... Thanks, Brian.