>> 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.
tzdata was just an exemple, it was the first one I tought that was updated
frequently...
For my part, no I didn't care and left those packages that were already
installed alone.
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