well, in the production environment, which is fairly chaotic, i seem to have a difficulty getting the repomd.xml file read. what i get back is: 0001# yum -y -c /etc/yum.repos.d/local-updates.repo check-update Repository local-mods already added, not adding again Setting up repositories Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: local-mods failure: repodata/repomd.xml from local-mods: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. 0001# i had an apache conf file (a yum-vhost.conf one) but that broke basic http connections and it resulted in a 404 for the request on the repomd.xml file. removing it and going straight to the ip address in the client config yields the above. the client is very simple config: [local-mods] name=local-mods baseurl=http://x.y.124.179/var/www/html/yum/rel001 enabled=1 the file is on the web server under /var/www/html/yum/rel001/repodata any thoughts / suggestions / help would be appreciated. this one has me puzzled. thanks. _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum