dnf is completly broken

Josef Bacik josef at toxicpanda.com
Sun Sep 27 17:08:59 UTC 2015


On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>
>
> Am 27.09.2015 um 13:57 schrieb Neal Gompa:
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>>     Am 27.09.2015 um 11:27 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
>>
>>         This is quite tiresome.  dnf clearly isn't "completely broken".
>> It
>>         may have a bug, but the correct place to put that is in Bugzilla.
>>
>>
>>     a package manager which pretends "nothing to do" after rm -rf
>>     /var/cache/dnf/* while there are two fresh builds is by definition
>>     broken
>>
>> My question to you is... why are you doing "rm -rf /var/cache/dnf/*"?
>> Why not just do "sudo dnf <action> --refresh"? That forces DNF to
>> actually look at everything again. If your goal is to clean everything
>> out, then "sudo dnf clean all" would do the trick too (which also worked
>> in the yum days)
>
>
> how often do you ask that question again?
>
> a empty "/var/cache/yum|dnf" is a by definition and unconditional empty
> cache - why should i trust a software obviously not working with the basic
> commands right in case of other ones?
>
> and BTW we are not a Ubuntu - what's up with all that "sudo" stuff - if i am
> root then i am root, that's it
>

This is unnecessarily combative and derogatory to a fellow
distribution, why are you going out of your way to be mean spirited?
Thanks,

Josef


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