DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

[Jan Zelený]

On 20. 6. 2014 at 11:22:15, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 20.06.2014 09:11, schrieb Jan Zelený:
> > On 19. 6. 2014 at 14:24:39, Jon wrote:
> >>> and BTW i am not playing around that much on my Rawhide VM but had
> >>> *two times* today by type "dnf whatever" the "there is already an
> >>> instance, wating for PID..." nonsense caused by the background
> >>> metadata refresh
> >>> 
> >>> do you *really* think that's a good user-expierience?
> >> 
> >> No, that is unfortunate, and probably user unfriendly.
> > 
> > While I agree that the user experience is not pleasant, you are talking
> > about rawhide. I'd like to ask you not to use rawhide as a reference. We
> > never intended to optimize dnf for the rawhide use case which is
> > different in so many ways compared to stable Fedoras
> 
> that is not matter of rawhide or not and has nohting to do with usecases

Actually it has everything to do with rawhide. On normal distribution you will 
not see that lock that often because the metadata doesn't change that often 
and it doesn't need to be re-downloaded multiple times a day.

Thanks
Jan