On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Tom Hughes <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 22/07/17 17:53, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> Is this expected behavior? Or is it a bug? And if it's a bug, how do I >> collect the necessary information for a bug report? This problem >> happens often, but not every day. >> >> [chris@f26h Downloads]$ sudo dnf install *rpm > > Here you are root. > >> And then in another Terminal tab hardly 25 minutes later it wants to >> download the exact same repo metadata again. Why? >> >> >> [chris@f26h Downloads]$ dnf search openjpeg > > > Here you aren't root so it's not using the same cache, because it can't > write to the root owned cache so it creates a temporary cache owned by your > user. Oh. My. God. It makes complete sense, but is also completely ridiculous. What a bad user experience. > I'm not sure how dnf does it it but IIRC yum used to create the per-user > cache in /tmp so it would persist until /tmp got cleaned. > > This is why I always run dnf commands (even things like list or search) as > root so that I get the advantage of the shared cache ;-) Ughh. I hate computer security right now ... -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
