Re: DNF and PackageKit background data usage

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 22:50 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>> Since offline updates are the default, and packagekit downloads
>>> everything currently needing updating, if the user doesn't ever do a
>>> Restart & Install to proceed with offline updates, i.e. they only
>>> ever
>>> use dnf for updates and never disable packagekit updates, I'm pretty
>>> sure the expected result is it just accumulates all of these
>>> unapplied
>>> updates.
>>
>> A 7 GB cache cannot be the expected result. PackageKit can only have
>> one update prepared at a time, so it should only cache one prepared
>> update at a time and should clear the cache before preparing the next
>> one. Otherwise it's just a cache leak.
>
> Then there must be a leak as I have multiple rpms with slightly
> different versions.
>
> https://paste.fedoraproject.org/466976/
>
> The other thing I'm seeing is, I'll get a notification for software
> updates, click on it, see the Restart & Install blue button in GNOME
> Software, close/quite GNOME Software, and at some later time relaunch
> GNOME Software and it says everything is up to date even though the
> offline update wasn't run. And if I refresh, it appears to be
> downloading a lot of data all over again - I just don't know what and
> have no good way to troubleshoot this, but the refresh is taking a
> long time, maybe 30 minutes.

After refreshing, and choosing Restart  & Install, I get an offline
update. Following reboot from that, all the RPMs that were in
/var/cache/PackageKit/25/metadata/updates-testing/packages before the
update are still in that path.

-- 
Chris Murphy
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