why does "yum distro-sync" downgrade pidgin.i686 0:2.7.3-1.fc14 and libpurple.i686 0:2.7.3-1.fc14

[Joachim Backes]

On 09/22/2010 04:48 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 16:38:41 +0200,
>   Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
>> I runned because of curiosity reasons the command
>>
>> yum distro-sync,
>>
>> and this command downgraded the installed pidgin.i686 0:2.7.3-1.fc14 and
>> libpurple.i686 0:2.7.3-1.fc14  to
>> pidgin.i686 0:2.7.2-1.fc14 and libpurple.i686 0:2.7.2-1.fc14.
>>
>> What could be the reason for this?
> 
> If you mean in general why do things sometimes get downgraded in F14,
> then there are a couple of possibilities.
> 
> After things end up in updates-testing, they can be found to have problems
> and get removed.

Sounds reasonable.

> This this would result in you having in installed version
> later than the latest available version.
> 
> They can also get moved from updates-testing to stable. The stable repo
> is getting rebuilt once a day at a relatively consistent time. The
> updates-testing repo gets rebuilt out of sync with this. So moved updates
> can disappear from updates-testing up to about a day before they show up
> in the stable repo. So when you check for updates you might not see the
> one you got from testing that is one its way to stable. But after a short
> while it will be available again.

Sounds good :-)

> This is pretty much just an issue with
> the branched release if you have updates-testing enabled.

Bruno, thanks for explanation.

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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