nvr issues, yum distro-sync

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 16:16 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> 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.
> 

yum calls it that b/c it is the VERSION of the DISTRIBUTION RELEASE

or specifically the VERSION from the package which provides
'redhat-release'

which includes: fedora-release, redhat-release, centos-release, etc, etc


yes, it is confusing - you can thank 8yrs of slowly evolving
terminology.

I'm sorry.

-sv