So I built and installed yum 1.0.3 on my rh7.3 system, and I'm still having the problem as before: [chicken] yum-arch -z . ... Digesting rpms 37 % complete: kernel-2.4.21-15.EL.i686.rpmAlready found tuple: kernel i686 ignoring older pkg: kernel-2.4.21-15.0.3.EL.i686.rpm ... Any ideas? The repository is redhat 7.3, running rpm 4.0.4-7x.18, and yum 1.0.4. Upgrading it to RHEL is not an option at this point. Thanks, Brian.