Re: Changing from RHEL to CentOS

[John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Nicolas Ross wrote:

> By looking at the man page, distro-sync wouldn't re-install a package with
> the same version. For exemple, on my rhel boxes, I have
> tzdata-2011g-1.el6.noarch installed, and on my sl6's one, I have
> tzdata-2011g-1.el6.noarch. It's the same exact version number. So the
> installed package wouldn't be re-installed.
>
> You would need to do yum reinstall \* to properly re-install the package
> from the new repo (sl6 or c6 for instance).

Are there many packages with identical names that you'd *care* about
reinstalling?  tzdata for example I assuming is functionally identical (if not
pretty much bit-for-bit).  Given it's got the same NEVRA, it's not going to
get updated any differently either.

jh
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