Re: What is broken with software update?

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On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 10:46 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 09/15/2015 06:44 PM, John Mellor wrote:
> > I checked the dnf log and dnf is configured to select some
> > indeterminate Fedora mirrors site.  I'm willing to bet that the
> > unselected mirrors are no more than a couple of hours out-of-date
> > at
> > worst, and there is actually a software error at work here.  So,
> > how to
> > I preconfigure my system to get the two updaters to select the same
> > repo?
> 
> Pick a mirror for each of your enabled repositories, edit the files 
> under /etc/yum.repos.d, disable metalink and enable baseurl with your
> preferred mirror.
> 
> > P.S, just out of curiosity, why is the software updater not sharing
> > the
> > same dnf and yum metadata backend that clearly works better?
> 
> It does use the same backend.  It keeps a separate copy of the
> metadata, 
> though.  Never was sure why; I thought that's what packagekitd was
> *for*.

Interesting test.  Forcing both to use the same repo results in the
same data.  The metadata separation problem seems to explain the
observed issue nicely.
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