[CentOS] updating to 5.2 from local repo
Ned Slider
ned at unixmail.co.uk
Thu Jun 26 13:40:38 UTC 2008
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?
> 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.
>
> Kai
>
That's correct - you'll need the full base, not just updates.
The new base is actually "5.2", and updates are merely packages released
_since_ upstream released 5.2 a month ago.
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