On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 4:57 PM Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2024, at 17:11, Stephen Morris <steve.morris.au@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > why was that updated again, surely that repository was flagged as up to date by the prior dnf update? > > Not 100% sure but I suspect something in dnf needs-restarting is looking for the extra dnf metadata that includes package file lists, which aren’t downloaded for normal updates, to speed up regular updates (since they’re significantly larger metadata files). > > Just like when you run “dnf install httpd” it only downloads the smaller set of information, but if you then run “dnf install /usr/bin/top” it has to download more metadata, even though you just updated a moment ago. If stale metadata is the case, then rebuilding the dnf cache with the --refresh option may sidestep the problem. Something like `sudo dnf makecache --refresh`. Also see <https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#metadata-synchronization>. Jeff -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
