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.