A couple of points I missed in my previous message: It is a good idea to save the output of each rpm command: rpm ... 2>&1 | tee rpm.out especially the last one, so you can see which config files might need to be replaced or merged in with your existing ones (.rpmorig, .rpmnew, and .rpmsave files). For doing a bunch of machines, just NFS export your directory containing the latest-only updates, and mount that on each client to do the updates. My scripts which I use to mirror the updates and maintain the latest-only tree are available here: ftp://angus.ind.wpi.edu/pub/cra-contrib/mirror-tools -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886