On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 11:51:47 +0000 (UTC), Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: > >> "dnf --refresh" is more like "dnf clean expire-cache", which sometimes > >> gives additional updates to plain "dnf upgrade", but there still seems > >> some caching involved that keeps it from providing all updates available. > > > > Doubtful. > > > > "dnf update --refresh" here (Rawhide) always redownloads the metadata. > > That's behaviour like running after "dnf clean metadata", > > not "dnf clean expire-cache". [1] > > Neither "dnf --refresh upgrade" nor "dnf clean expire-cache;dnf upgrade" > will try to download the base Fedora data (F22). Only "dnf clean metadata" > plus "dnf upgrade" force a full refresh. Rawhide. I refer to Rawhide! I cannot afford spending time on this issue with F22 in addition to Rawhide. "dnf --refresh update" here **always** redownloads the metadata. > Just try it out. "--refresh" and "clean expire-cache" result in the same. > That also matches the documentation. Both set the metadata some kind of > expired but don't really remove the data. Once more: doubtful. Whether "--refresh" doesn't remove the metadata is not of interest, since it redownloads it afterwards anyway. And whether it "matches the documentation" remains to be seen. I haven't examined the implementation. Does --refresh really do anything to confirm the checksum of the metadata cache before deciding to redownload? Then why does it redownload always here? -- 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