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. > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Only changed packages (not binary compatible) are in CentOS marked with .centos. so those should be replaced without question. For others, running "yum reinstall \*" is advised but not necessary. You are allowed to run RHEL but are not allowed updates, so using base of RHEL and updates from CentOS should generally be OK. Ljubomir