Re: dnf caches

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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.
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