dnf replacing yum and dnf-yum

[Petr Spacek]

On 9.4.2015 20:23, Radek Holy wrote:
> ----- 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? 

Maybe it could print oldest + newest timestamp, possibly with repo names?

I mean something like:
"Metadata: Oldest repo fedora-release (Fri Apr 3 03:24:08 2015, 4 days old),
newest repo fedora-updates-testing (Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 2015, 10 minutes
old)." or something like that.

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Petr Spacek  @  Red Hat