> Well, with a standard install of rpms, all the rpms are downloaded with yum > at the moment, but when yum is not able to download a large rpm, like > openoffice-core or something, I use wget to get that one rpm, but yum still > wants to pull the header file out of the rpm online, which in it'self is > big, will take a long time ... If the rpm is locally downloaded already, and > sig verify, then it should be able to pull header details directly out of > the local rpm. Seems easier than having to go and create a repo that > already exists. This is because yum still points to a remote repository. If you get all the rpms and have them in a directory locally which yum points to (and ONLY that repo) then it will not fetch anything remotely. It'll just look at the repository you create, and get everything it needs there. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell
