after the network guys punched holes in the firewall all is well in terms of obtaining access to our site-local repository. (not local as in on this box but within our network, and yes, they are internal firewalls). here is what i now see: 002# yum clean all Cleaning up Everything 0 headers removed 0 packages removed 0 metadata files removed 0 cache files removed 0 cache files removed 002# yum -y -d8 -c /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo update Repository local-repo already added, not adding again Yum Version: 2.3.2 COMMAND: yum -y -d8 -c /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo update Installroot: / Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://12.172.124.179/yum/rel001'] local-repo 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Setting up Package Sacks primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 883 B 00:00 primary sqlite cache needs updating, reading in metadata local-repo: ################################################## 2/2 Added 2 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.44 seconds Excluding Incompatible Archs Finished Reading Local RPMDB Building updates object No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion 002# i am running it as root. the 2 rpms in the repository are not installed on the box. how do i get the packages to update? thanks. _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum