On 23/04/15 18:44, drago01 wrote: > 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. Great thanks. BTW --refresh is mentioned but not described in dnf --help. It would be could to add a description. I also see that `dnf install` no longer updates a package, I now need to: dnf --refresh upgrade coreutils thanks! Pádraig. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
