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 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
