On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 07:43:49PM +0000, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:
Rahul Sundaram metherid@gmail.com wrote:
However, if somebody runs "dnf upgrade" on the command shell then he clearly wants the latest updates. Right now! No caching or other magic involved. That's the whole point of running "dnf upgrade" manually, otherwise the user would have left the whole updating business to some automated background task.
If this is what you want, use dnf update --refresh instead
That does clearly *not* provide the latest updates. It's better than without "--refresh", but "dnf clean metadata" is required for full updates available.
FWIW, this my bug report fell on deaf ears:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246253
I find it disheartening how it was closed without even acknowledging that the problem exists, so I decided not to pursue this further. If someone is willing to put in the effort to push for this, please reopen the bug. Or maybe a new one, specifically on --refresh not doing what it is supposed to.
Cheers,