On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 03:57, Michael Stenner wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 11:26:49PM +0000, Rob Watkin wrote: > > Sorry if anyone has already answered this but I have now solved the > > problem. > > > > It was my own (silly) fault. In my wisdom I had removed the line > > exactarch=1 > > from the /etc/yum.conf file. > > It still should exit with a traceback. Perhaps seth will take a look > at this. However, my main point is that if you have the files on > local disk, you may find it faster and/or more convenient to specify > your baseurl as file:///path/to/your/repo I have several machines (athlon,i686,i586) and I want a central repository. My plan is to run yum on one machine and then copy any new rpms from /var/cahce/yum into the central repository so that the other machines can pick them up locally. Rob -- Rob Watkin <robwatkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>