[CentOS] updating to 5.2 from local repo

[Robert Moskowitz]

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> This is my first major version update after using a local repo.
> It seems that before I can "yum update" I have to fetch the complete new 
> 5.2 base? Is this correct?
>   
You can build your base repo from the iso images via Nautilus.  Right 
click on the iso image file and open with the Archive Manager, then 
extract the contents to a directory.  You will have to set permissions 
to the created directories to 755.

Then do an rsync to the mirror base, you will pick a few fixes.

Building your 5.2/update repo directory is about a 900Mb download.  No 
easy way around this.

BTW, I have done all this this week.
> When I run yum update it now fails with various strange dependency errors 
> although all the updates are synced. When I change to using the original 
> repo file it wants to download many many more and shows a lot of files 
> that are in base and not in updates.
>   
Did you do a yum clean all first?  that was giving me all sorts of errors.