> On 26. Mar 2018, at 10:39, Oron Peled <oron@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Monday, 26 March 2018 11:16:14 IDT Tom Hughes wrote: >> On 26/03/18 09:06, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: >>> Debian has APT. APT uses one copy of metadata. Be wise. Like Debian. >> >> Do we know how? Do they just not allow non-root users to get up >> to date data, or do they do something cleverer? > > With APT, cache update and using the cache are orthogonal operations: > * Running "apt-get update" is privileged and update the cache. > * There's obviously an optional service to run "apt-get update" periodically if root prefer this mechanism. > * Doing just query (e.g: apt list ...) always use latest cache data. > * So query by root or any user are the same -- no privileged and work on the cache (which may/may-not be updated). Question: Would splitting-up cache update and package upgrade operations worth considering for dnf 3.0? (As a long time CentOS, Fedora user I am always envious at how snappy (no pun intended) apt-get update && apt-get upgrade feel when I get my hands on one of these :-) BK _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
