As mentioned in an earlier post, I had to recompile courier-imap from source to add mysql support (which was quite an adventure in itself!). I had the bright idea of installing using YaST installer so it would show up in the list of installed packages which it did with the "--i--" activity code indicating it should not be updated. However, YoU changes this to ">" and I can find no way to change it back which means I cannot use YoU at all. Questions: 1. Is there some way to make YoU NOT try to update packages compiled from source? 2. I need to do a kernel update but only see the rather sizeable kernel RPM. I know that YaST (as of SuSE 9.2) only downloads and applies diffs. Is there some way I can locate and apply the diff files? What is the procedure to apply diffs? Thank you, Lucky Leavell