> Thanks for the prompt reply! (Thanks to you too Matthew) > > I suspect I may not be the only one with this particular need (which I could > do with up2date) and you may want to consider addressing this capability for > future versions of yum. > > I think I can accomplish what I want to do (see what is available from the > mirror list and install only install from my local repo) by using > --enablerepo=<> or --disablerepro=<> on the yum command line. This is a bit > more manual but not much. If the manual entry becomes error prone or > tedious, some script files should simplify things. why not just treat your local repo as your own mirror and remove the remote site from your .repo files? -sv