Well, I'm back to cause more trouble. I'm now trying to use yum to build a disk image for use by qemu. After discovering the now ubiquitous gpg key problem, I did: rpm --root `pwd`/mnt --import http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4 to correct it. Now this is what I am seeing: # yum -y --installroot=`pwd`/mnt install rpm Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 7, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 51, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 271, in getOptionsConfig self.parseCommands() # before we exit check over the base command + args File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 326, in parseCommands if not self.gpgKeyCheck(): File "__init__.py", line 1048, in gpgKeyCheck IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/qemu/mnt/var/cache/yum/.gpgkeyschecked.yum' What should I try now? -- Matt Nothing great was ever accomplished without _passion_