On 8/11/24 08:57, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Nov 6, 2024, at 17:11, Stephen Morrissteve.morris.au@gmail.com wrote:
why was that updated again, surely that repository was flagged as up to date by the prior dnf update?
Not 100% sure but I suspect something in dnf needs-restarting is looking for the extra dnf metadata that includes package file lists, which aren’t downloaded for normal updates, to speed up regular updates (since they’re significantly larger metadata files).
Just like when you run “dnf install httpd” it only downloads the smaller set of information, but if you then run “dnf install /usr/bin/top” it has to download more metadata, even though you just updated a moment ago.
Thanks Jonathan, I had forgotten about that issue that causes problems with dnfdragora.
regards, Steve