dnf replacing yum and dnf-yum
Radek Holy
rholy at redhat.com
Thu Apr 9 18:23:56 UTC 2015
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Przemek Klosowski" <przemek.klosowski at nist.gov>
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2015 5:13:49 PM
> Subject: Re: dnf replacing yum and dnf-yum
> On 04/09/2015 11:05 AM, Michal Luscon wrote:
> > On 04/09/2015 05:01 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
>
> > > Using metadata from Fri Apr 3 03:24:08 2015
> >
>
> > ^^^ the key part of DNF output
>
> Well, OK, but when I just re-run 'dnf update' it updates firefox now:
> > Using metadata from Fri Apr 3 03:24:08 2015
>
> > ^^^ same timestamp as before, but different result
>
> > ...
>
> > Dependencies resolved.
>
> > ...
>
> > firefox x86_64 37.0.1-1.fc21 updates 69 M
>
> This is a definition of craziness: you do the same thing twice and expect a
> different return. In the end, I can't say that it doesn't work but I have an
> uneasy feeling that I do not understand how an essential part of my system
> works.
The reason is that even if metadata of the "updates" repository have been refreshed, there is probably another repository with matadata from Fri Apr 3 03:24:08 2015 (it has probably longer expiration period). So, yes, I agree that this is confusing.
Do you have a better idea than printing the timestamp for each repository?
--
Radek HolĂ˝
Associate Software Engineer
Software Management Team
Red Hat Czech
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