On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 20:46, Serge de Souza wrote: > > yum seems to download the headers every time you run it and can take > aaages even on a very fast connection. > > > Serge > You can run yum check-update as a cron to download the headers and then yum -C install $package to use the Cache it will run through the servers but not check them.