After reading this thread, I will have to agree that having a good and simple persistent cache mechanism would be a very good thing. Particularly one that doesn't require editting all of the repo files. I also can't think of any good way to implement it in anything resembling a practical manner. I know Andrew Waldron was doing something like this with Whitewater, but I don't know the details. I like yum. I like yum a lot more now than 2 years ago, the improvements have been fantastic. Please keep up the good work. -- Matt Nothing great was ever accomplished without _passion_