That sounds like a plan. Although, if you have time and interest in hunting down what happened the folks over on https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum would be happy to help troubleshoot and possibly fix whatever bug caused this (if it is a bug and not something weird that happened on just your box). Be sure to send your yum, OS, python, rpm versions and your yum.conf and yum.repos.d Greg