Suvayu Ali wrote: >That said, I sometimes do not understand what's the harm in getting >updates few hours later. dnf already tells you how old the metadata is >when it starts, you can choose to get the latest metadata if it is too >old. So what's the big deal? I certainly get the impression that dnf tells me about updates less frequently than yum did. It also seems to pull in metadata less frequently. In fedora-updates.repo I have: metadata_expire=6h. I also have the dnf-makecache.timer 'masked'. It's more than 6 hours since I last ran dnf but: [root@vulcan rmyf22]# dnf check-update Fedora 22 - x86_64 - RMY repository 131 kB/s | 6.0 kB 00:00 Last metadata expiration check performed 0:00:00 ago on Wed Jul 22 08:38:32 2015. [root@vulcan rmyf22]# No updates. It pulled in metadata for my private repo but not fedora-updates. So is it really telling me "how old the metadata is"? The message just refers to the last time an expiration check was performed. Does that mean the metadata was up to date as of 0:00:00 ago? Because, as we shall see, it clearly wasn't. Let's try the --refresh option: [root@vulcan rmyf22]# dnf --refresh check-update Fedora 22 - x86_64 - RMY repository 113 kB/s | 6.0 kB 00:00 Last metadata expiration check performed 0:00:00 ago on Wed Jul 22 08:39:01 2015. [root@vulcan rmyf22]# Still no updates. Time for a bigger hammer (don't try this at home or offer it as advice to newbies): [root@vulcan rmyf22]# rm -rf /var/cache/dnf/x86_64/22/updates* [root@vulcan rmyf22]# dnf check-update Fedora 22 - x86_64 - Updates 774 kB/s | 12 MB 00:16 Last metadata expiration check performed 0:00:16 ago on Wed Jul 22 08:40:02 2015. environment-modules.x86_64 3.2.10-16.fc22 updates ... Plus 55 other updates. What's going on? Ron -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
