Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

[poma]

On 06/16/2014 03:23 PM, Paul Knox-Kennedy wrote:
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>> On 06/16/14 04:42, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 06/16/14 16:37, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>>>>> So there is still a considerable difference in what each of them
>>>>> does here,
>>> I ran into this the other day.  It would seem the way dnf
>> handles caching is different from yum.  Not 100%
>> sure/convinced this "fixed" my problem....but after running
>> "dnf clean expire-cache" it then reported the same thing as yum.
>>
>>
>> I will try that next time, thanks.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
> Dnf defaults to 48h metadata expiry. Yum default is much shorter (I
> found a reference saying it is 1.5h, but don't know if this is still
> true).
>
> You can set metadata_expire in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf - I dropped it to 6h.

/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
[main]
gpgcheck=1
installonly_limit=100
best=1
deltarpm=1
debuglevel=10
errorlevel=10
metadata_expire=0
metadata_timer_sync=0


Regardless, its output is still ugly compared to yum daisies.
Long live the yum!


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