nvr issues, yum distro-sync

[Matt McCutchen]

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 16:07 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 15:58 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 15:03 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> > >  While it's not good packaging, most of the time these bad versions
> > > don't cause any problems.
> > 
> > It's better to have the packages that are supported (to the extent that
> > the community provides support) for the distribution version being used
> > and won't appear in "package-cleanup --orphans".  AIUI, there is no
> > correspondence between the release numbers of a package in different
> > Fedora versions, so the higher-release F12 package may lack fixes that
> > the lower-release F13 package has.
> > 
> > >  If you want to get rid of them "easily" though, feel free to install
> > > the yum from rawhide and run "distro-sync".
> > 
> > I'm looking forward to using "distro-sync".  Will PackageKit change to
> > do "distro-sync" instead of "update"?  I think it should.
> > 
> 
> that's going to be up to the pk maintainer(s).
> 
> but I don't think moving to distro-sync necessarily makes sense there.
> 
> distro-sync is mostly valuable for folks playing between two releases.

For users who don't downgrade releases, it makes no difference most of
the time.  But in the cases where it does, I think "distro-sync" is the
right thing to do.  Do you disagree?  Does it have other drawbacks?
(Performance?)

-- 
Matt