I'm running cobbler 2.0.11 from EPEL on CentOS 5. I've got a set of repos that I would like to exclude one RPM from. I added an exclude option to the "Yum Options" field in cobbler. Here's one example: # cobbler repo report --name SL5-x86_64-Base Name : SL5-x86_64-Base Arch : x86_64 Breed : yum Comment : Createrepo Flags : <<inherit>> Environment Variables : {} Keep Updated : True Mirror : http://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/scientific/5x/x86_64/SL Mirror locally : True Owners : ['admin'] Priority : 1 RPM List : [] Yum Options : {'exclude': 'jdk'} I would expect that the cobbler-config.repo file that is generated for a system would contain "exclude=jdk," but it doesn't. Here are the lines from cobbler-config.repo for that repo: [SL5-x86_64-Base] name=SL5-x86_64-Base baseurl=http://10.0.110.55/cobbler/repo_mirror/SL5-x86_64-Base enabled=1 priority=1 gpgcheck=0 Also, the "exclude" option isn't in the repo file used by reposync from the origin: # cat /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/SL5-x86_64-Base/.origin/SL5-x86_64-Base.rep o [SL5-x86_64-Base] name=SL5-x86_64-Base baseurl=http://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/scientific/5x/x86_64/SL enabled=1 priority=1 gpgcheck=0 I've got other repos where I added "enabled=0" to "Yum Options," and that seems to work. Why doesn't "exclude=jdk" work the same way? Did I miss a step that was required after I changed "Yum Options" to make the change take effect? -- Owen Beckley - owenb(a)foxriver.com - T: 630 482 5148 - M: 630 788 6998