On 06/30/2014 04:00 AM, Elias Persson wrote:
>
> 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.
>

My apologies for perhaps not being very clear in that the 'full' 
argument is supposed to improve the situation for EL7.