nvr issues, yum distro-sync

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Thu May 27 20:16:22 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 16:10 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > distro-sync is mostly valuable for folks playing between two releases.
> 
> For users who don't downgrade releases, [...]

"Releases" there means distribution versions (i.e., collections in the
Package DB).  Ugh, confusing terminology.  Packages have versions and
releases; the distribution version appears as the version of the
fedora-release package, and yum calls it the $releasever.

-- 
Matt



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