Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

[Paul Knox-Kennedy]

> 
> On 06/16/14 04:42, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 06/16/14 16:37, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> >> > So there is still a considerable difference in what each of them 
> >> > does here,
> > I ran into this the other day.  It would seem the way dnf 
> handles caching is different from yum.  Not 100% 
> sure/convinced this "fixed" my problem....but after running 
> "dnf clean expire-cache" it then reported the same thing as yum.
> 
> 
> I will try that next time, thanks.
> 
> Bob
> 

Dnf defaults to 48h metadata expiry. Yum default is much shorter (I 
found a reference saying it is 1.5h, but don't know if this is still 
true).

You can set metadata_expire in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf - I dropped it to 6h.



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