When I do: yum -y --installroot=$PWD/g-chroot groupinstall "Base" it fails to install initscripts which is needed by bluez-utils and netdump. When I do: yum -y --installroot=$PWD/g-chroot groupinstall "Core" initscripts is installed. Does yum pull in "Core" when it installs "Base" or is there a separate list of pkgs. When I grep the comps.xml file on line 1442 I see this: <packagereq type="mandatory">initscripts</packagereq> It's the only place in the comps.xml file that the word initscripts exists. What's going on? Bob -- Bob Kashani http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome