On 11/4/19 8:31 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 11/5/19 12:08 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 11/4/19 5:00 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 16:50:23 -0800
ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Failed to download metadata for repo 'updates-testing'
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'updates-testing'
I've been getting this a lot for random different repos.
I usually wait a few minutes and run "dnf makecache" again,
and it works fine.
That fixed one. Now I got another one:
Maybe they are just busy with FC31 coming out
# dnf makecache
... Metadata cache created.
# dnf --enablerepo=* update
...
Failed to download metadata for repo 'rpmfusion-free-source'
FWIW, I find --enablerepo=* unnecessarily broad.
Indeed!
Have you actually
installed any "source" rpms or "debuginfo"
packages?
A few times. I have also rebuilt SRPMS from Fedora to run on
RHEL/CentOS. Thank goodness I don't have RHEL/CentOS to deal
with anymore. My opinion on those guys is rather harsh.
Additionally, one must understand that updating everything from
"testing" comes with a degree of risk.
In my experience, not much. Fedora is very high quality.
In some cases the reason for a package being in "testing" is to fix
issues which have been report/discovered.
Sometimes, yes rarely, the test package may not fix the issue but break
something else.
Haven't seen it, but no doubt it sometime occurs.
On systems I care about I only update from "testing" selectively.
Hi Ed,
Me? Yes and no.
On my customer's machines, I never use the testing repos.
On my machine, I always want to know what is in the pipeline,
so I enable them all.
The downside is that you have to be careful what repo's you
have installed. I clean out all repos I am not using.
If in doubt, I do the dnf list with only that repo enabled
to see what I am using from it. I have found a bunch of
zeros too. As you said "unnecessarily broad". Pruning
repo helps that.
And since most of my work comes from Windows, I find the
testing versions from Fedroa to be a bazillion times more
reliable that anything from M$. Fedora's testing
versions hardly ever goof anything. And when they do,
they are ridiculously easy to handle: "dnf downgrade"
is your friend.
-T
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When you say, "I wrote a program that
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