On 26 March 2018 at 09:16, Tom Hughes <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Will it FINALLY use one copy of metadata for all system users? > Do you have a proposal as to how that might be possible in a > secure way? I think he means removing the duplication of the cache between PackageKit and dnf. The former only uses a separate cache as it updates the cache all at one, and switches to new versions atomically so applications like gnome-software can always run transactions with known latencies. dnf (the command line tool) only downloaded the metadata files it needed for the current request, and so it could be you had to start downloading something like the filelists when you actually depsolved a transaction (which is somewhat incompatible with offline updates for instance). With version 3.0 dnf is switching to the codebase we originally wrote for PackageKit (libzif->libhif->libdnf), and so it inherits the "download complete cache and switch atomically" logic. This means we get a shared cache for free. Richard. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
