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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