On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 09:34:32AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > I think this can be addressed by moving the metadata updates to a > different function, and calling it *separately* only as needed. The > Debian "apt" tool does this quite effectively. You can kind of simulate that by forcing yum to run from cache only. Use the -C flag for that. Lars