Hi Seth, I have a situation... We need some way to know if the .repo we are parsing is indeed a CentOS one and if so which mirror list to look at. There seem to be 2 ways to work this. 1. Use filenames (eg. CentOS-BASE.repo) 2. Use a command line or marker inside the repo itself, on a # comment line (#->CentOS-Base<- ) I know that 2. is a kludge and a bad one - but is there any other way to look at this issue ? how do we figure out which ones are CentOS repos from a list of 10 .repo files. on email, so reply when u can... Thanks - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc