----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 8:11:45 PM > Subject: Re: dnf caches > > 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. Could you please file a bug? > I also see that `dnf install` no longer updates a package, > I now need to: > > dnf --refresh upgrade coreutils Yes, we know about it. The current behaviour makes sense but doing the upgrade is more consistent with the documentation. We will fix it. > thanks! > Pádraig. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- Radek Holý Associate Software Engineer Software Management Team Red Hat Czech -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
