dnf update must be wrong...

[Eric Griffith]

Dnf / Yum and PackageKit (Apper / Gnome Software / etc) don't use the same
caches. One can tell you new updates are available, while the other
doesn't, because the first one just updated its information but the other
hasn't yet.  In this case, PackageKit updated itself and saw updates, but
dnf hadn't yet. The reverse can happen too.

There's ongoing work to unify the caches, but its still WIP.

Don't know about your other question. Probably a PolKit policy.

--Eric--
On Nov 16, 2015 16:53, "Dariusz J. Garbowski" <thuforuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There is something clearly broken with updates (dnf?) but I can't tell
> what:
>
> 1. In KDE I get a notification that there are 6 packages to update. So, as
> root, I run:
>
>
> [root at localhost ~]# dnf repolist
> Last metadata expiration check performed 2:22:09 ago on Mon Nov 16
> 19:27:21 2015.
> repo id repo name status
> *fedora Fedora 23 - x86_64 46,074
> rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 23 - Free 692
> rpmfusion-free-updates-testing RPM Fusion for Fedora 23 - Free - Test
> Updates 182
> rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 23 - Nonfree 206
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing RPM Fusion for Fedora 23 - Nonfree -
> Test Updates 26
> *updates Fedora 23 - x86_64 - Updates 4,139
>
> [root at localhost ~]# dnf update
> Last metadata expiration check performed 2:14:00 ago on Mon Nov 16
> 19:27:21 2015.
> Dependencies resolved.
>
> ==============================================================================================================================================================================================
>  Package                               Arch
>   Version                        Repository
>                      Size
>
> ==============================================================================================================================================================================================
> Skipping packages with broken dependencies:
>  akmods                                noarch
>   0.5.4-1.fc23                        rpmfusion-free-updates-testing
>                          25 k
>
> Transaction Summary
>
> ==============================================================================================================================================================================================
>
> Nothing to do.
> Complete!
>
>
>
> Hmmm... no packages to update. But notification lists 6 packages,
> including ffmpeg and VirtualBox. So I run:
>
> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -qi VirtualBox
> Name        : VirtualBox
> Version     : 5.0.8
> Release     : 1.fc23
> ...
>
>
> 2. Let's then click install in "Software Updates" notification pop-up.
> Guess what! Packages are downloading and installing.
>
> Let's check:
>
> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -qi VirtualBox
> Name        : VirtualBox
> Version     : 5.0.10
> Release     : 1.fc23
> ...
>
> What??? Why hasn't dnf picked on this and updated VirtualBox?
>
> Bonus question: what makes it possible for regular user to install
> packages via some widget in KDE? How to disable this?
>
> Regards,
> Dariusz
>
>
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