CentOS - Dec 2020 - Thanks a lot for 8.3 Update

Hi,

Thanks a lot for the 8.3 update.?
I would like to point out one thing I faced.
I downloaded the iso from one mirror.
After installing, I installed a package (rsync).
Then some packages, including dnf, got downgraded to 8.2.
Just a test server, not production.

Thanks.

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Lee

very odd, DNF/YUM should *never* downgrade a package.    its possible the
mirror it chose to use was lagging on replication and didn' thave the 8.3
latest packages yet (this is a regular issue with the centos mirrors)., but
really it should have errored rather than downgrading.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 12:51 AM Thomas Stephen Lee <lee.iitb at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot for the 8.3 update.?
> I would like to point out one thing I faced.
> I downloaded the iso from one mirror.
> After installing, I installed a package (rsync).
> Then some packages, including dnf, got downgraded to 8.2.
> Just a test server, not production.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ---
> Lee
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> 
> Thanks a lot for the 8.3 update.?
> I would like to point out one thing I faced.
> I downloaded the iso from one mirror.
> After installing, I installed a package (rsync).
> Then some packages, including dnf, got downgraded to 8.2.
> Just a test server, not production.
> 
I suspect that not all mirrors are fully synced yet.  My local mirror
(which I sync from an institutional mirror) still has the default 8
version pointing to 8.2.2004 not 8.3.2011

P.