----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Schwendt" <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 2:01:27 PM > Subject: Re: More dnf annoyance > > 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? It's a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226724 :-( -- Radek Holý Associate Software Engineer Software Management Team Red Hat Czech -- 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
