On 12/19/18 4:29 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 12/18/18 12:25 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:13:45 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote:
This turns off the automatic checking and downloading of updates by Gnome Software and any other PackageKit based system. But there is also a cron job for dnf that updates the metadata regularly (daily?). If that's a concern for you, you can disable that one as well.
But as I discovered, if you disable that, and simply run
dnf update
it will never think there are any updates available.
To update entirely manually, I need to run:
dnf makecache dnf update
I thought you just needed to run it twice. Isn't there a bug filed for that? But also, I've never run into this. I haven't disabled the cron job, but sometimes dnf will still check and download updated metadata when I run it.
By "cron job" don't you mean dnf-makecache.timer in systemd?
And, didn't we beat this subject to death not to long ago?
I still *never* have to run a dnf command twice. I created an alias which does "dnf --refresh upgrade".