On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Elias Persson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 2014-06-28 22:49, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

>> Running "yum distro-sync" failed to detect any discrepancy and did not
>> re-install them.
>
>
> Lamar wasn't very clear, perhaps, but it's `distro-sync full` that
> relies on checksums. From the man-page (of Fedora 20):
>
>     If you give the optional argument "full", then the command  will
>     also  reinstall  packages  where  the  install  checksum and the
>     available checksum do not match. And remove old packages (can be
>     used to sync. rpmdb versions). The optional argument "different"
>     can be used to specify the default operation.
>
> Unfortunately, it seems that's not available in EL6. Presumably
> Lamar has been dealing mostly with EL7 recently.

Thanks for the clarification. The potential for that kind of confusion
is why I described my test.