> Yum had a relatively long pause before it gave me the same > old error messages as usual after modifying the script. But > after running it once, it returns to instantly giving me the > error messages. (Don't the variables stay set for the > duration of the script anyway, so that the calling of yum at > the end is affected by those variables? When I was trying to > use a local repository, it seemed to work that way -- I > needed to not use the proxy for that, and used the script as > it stands above to do so...) > alright - let's take a step back: 1. what ver of yum is this? 2. are you using mirrorlists? thanks -sv