On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 18:07 +0100, Pádraig Brady 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? > Why should I need to mess with it anyway? Branched releases (i.e. F22 at present) do not use the 'updates' repo, it is empty. Updates go from updates-testing to fedora when they are marked as stable. So you need to clean 'fedora', not 'updates'. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Repositories#stable_is_not_a_repository -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
