when "yum distro-sync" downgrades a package, it says "Installing", not "Downgrading"
Rahul Sundaram
metherid at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 00:39:16 UTC 2012
On 02/29/2012 04:09 AM, Andre Robatino wrote:
> When yum distro-sync updates some packages and downgrades others, during the
> transaction it says "Updating :" for the updated packages, but "Installing :"
> for the downgraded ones. Is there a reason for that? I would only expect to see
> "Installing :" for a newly installed package.
>
> (I considered posting this on the test list, since distro-sync is more commonly
> used there, but it's not exclusive to test releases.)
Probably just a cosmetic thing because technically a downgrade is just
removal and installation of the older version as a new package. File a
bug report.
Rahul
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