On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Pádraig Brady <P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My Fedora 22 system prompted me that there was a new coreutils package for update. > Rather than clicking "restart and install" in the GUI I tried to: > > # dnf install coreutils > Using metadata from Tue Apr 21 19:54:02 2015 (1 day, 21:50:24 hours old) > Package coreutils-8.23-8.fc22.x86_64 is already installed, skipping. > > Ok fair enough, the updating system is using a separate cache to dnf. > Not ideal, but anyway how do I update the dnf cache? > I tried: > > # dnf check-update coreutils > Using metadata from Thu Apr 23 17:42:54 2015 (0:01:19 hours old) > coreutils.x86_64 > > Given the above found the new coreutils, I thought an install > would now work, though unfortunately it doesn't. > > Shouldn't dnf be looking at the timestamps of the repo > in each invocation (without -C) and updating the metadata if needed? > I presume that's what yum does since I never had an issue with this. > > I tried explicitly cleaning the cache like this: > > # dnf --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=updates clean metadata > Cleaning repos: updates > 5 metadata files removed > 2 dbcache files removed > > How do I refresh the cache? dnf --refresh <whatever> ... where <whatever> can be install foo or update etc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct