- why do you say it's downloading things over and over again?
I say it because it happens. First time, it stopped with "Error: xorg-x11-font-utils conflicts: xorg-x11-base-fonts<= 6.7.99.903-3" and after I manually installed xorg-x11-font-utils yum -y update started to download all the files from the beginning. I noticed this on a PC at home, it was not a problem since bandwidth is plenty but I'm doing the same thing on a machine at work where I have 512 kbps. I don't want to think about dial-up users...
What files is it that you're seeing it redownload.
A LOT of people have been confused by the ####### progess bar.
that is ONLY Reading information in.
it is NOT downloading ANYTHING
the '====' progress bar is for downloads
'####' - not downloading, just reading.
-sv