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