after dnf update, Gnome SW utility still requests the same updates

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Tue Sep 15 13:24:11 UTC 2015


On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 09:20 -0400, Joerg Lechner wrote:
> Hi,
> F23 Beta TC5 x86_64 Workstation. I did a dnf update, afterwards in
> the same session, Gnome SW utility requests updates, I follow the
> update procedure (reboot, update etc), the update fails, it says
> "already installed". Is there no communication between dnf and the
> update mechanism in the Gnome Software utility? I think dnf should
> tell the other update mechanisms immediately "updates are done".
> Kind Regards

No, there is no conversation between them. This is a known limitation.
If you do an update from DNF, the best workaround is to launch GNOME
Software, go to the updates tab and click the 'refresh' button, which
will cause it to go check the list of potential updates again.
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