Re delay time before allowing yum to accept an object, I would think that build time or directory timestamp would do. When I visit the mirror sites where yum is used, the mirrors contents have the same timestamps as their originating host. Leslie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20060830/81f49220/attachment.html