On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 18:21, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > On Mit, 2004-10-20 at 10:37 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > You're only downloading the headers of the packages that are having some > > action done to them by the transaction set. > > Looking at repodata/primary.xml.gz I see provides, conflicts, obsoletes > and requires, what else is required? To resolve the deps,and to know they are resolved correctly, you either need: to write your own depsolver, entirely, or you hand off the information about what you _think_ is correct to rpm and you ask it to tell you if you've gotten it all right. anaconda, up2date and yum do the latter. -sv