On 09/22/2010 04:48 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 16:38:41 +0200, > Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I runned because of curiosity reasons the command >> >> yum distro-sync, >> >> and this command downgraded the installed pidgin.i686 0:2.7.3-1.fc14 and >> libpurple.i686 0:2.7.3-1.fc14 to >> pidgin.i686 0:2.7.2-1.fc14 and libpurple.i686 0:2.7.2-1.fc14. >> >> What could be the reason for this? > > If you mean in general why do things sometimes get downgraded in F14, > then there are a couple of possibilities. > > After things end up in updates-testing, they can be found to have problems > and get removed. Sounds reasonable. > This this would result in you having in installed version > later than the latest available version. > > They can also get moved from updates-testing to stable. The stable repo > is getting rebuilt once a day at a relatively consistent time. The > updates-testing repo gets rebuilt out of sync with this. So moved updates > can disappear from updates-testing up to about a day before they show up > in the stable repo. So when you check for updates you might not see the > one you got from testing that is one its way to stable. But after a short > while it will be available again. Sounds good :-) > This is pretty much just an issue with > the branched release if you have updates-testing enabled. Bruno, thanks for explanation. -- Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes
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