I don't understand, Jude. There are multiple repositories that are all mirrors. The yum application will access these in a rollover fashion. So, I'm unclear what you tried to do and what happened, but your conclusion is, I think, somewhat off the mark. Janina Jude DaShiell writes: > I managed to get very close to successful except that the repom file on > fedoraproject.org for the Everything repository is now broken. Accidents > will happen from time to time. Fortunately I was able to clear all the > debris off the system thanks to tips provided on this list. I left the > gpg key alone though since that may come in handy later unless that gets > changed as the repository comes back up again.