Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

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