Re: unwanted checks for updates.

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On 12/19/18 4:29 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 12/18/18 12:25 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:13:45 -0800
>> Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>> This turns off the automatic checking and downloading of updates by
>>> Gnome Software and any other PackageKit based system.  But there is also
>>> a cron job for dnf that updates the metadata regularly (daily?).  If
>>> that's a concern for you, you can disable that one as well.
>>
>> But as I discovered, if you disable that, and simply run
>>
>> dnf update
>>
>> it will never think there are any updates available.
>>
>> To update entirely manually, I need to run:
>>
>> dnf makecache
>> dnf update
>
> I thought you just needed to run it twice.  Isn't there a bug filed for that?  But also,
> I've never run into this.  I haven't disabled the cron job, but sometimes dnf will still
> check and download updated metadata when I run it.
>

By "cron job" don't you mean dnf-makecache.timer in systemd?

And, didn't we beat this subject to death not to long ago?

I still *never* have to run a dnf command twice.  I created an alias which does "dnf
--refresh upgrade".


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