DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

[Jan Zelený]

On 20. 6. 2014 at 12:29:32, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 20.06.2014 12:23, schrieb 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
> 
> how does it know that?

Checksums.

Thanks
Jan