dnf update vs Software Udpates

[Radek Holy]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Suvayu Ali" <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 10:58:05 AM
> Subject: Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates
> 
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 10:36:01AM +0200, Maurizio Marini wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 10:01:37 +0200
> > Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 20:39:36 -0500, Javier Perez wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Ok, just did a dnf clean all , and the dnf update and the updates
> > > > showed up
> > > > 
> > > > Weird.
> > > 
> > > Just some hours before your post I had sent this:
> > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2015-July/463183.html
> > 
> > Michael is right: all we are a mass of lame
> > I have shamed very much reading his answer to me; I have posted w/out RTFM
> > and
> > who do not RTFM should be banned like in old good irc times
> 
> Unfortunately Michael, this `yum/dnf clean all' business will never go
> away.  I remember there was a time on this list, when everytime someone
> suggested that, they got corrected.  But all the people who used to do
> the correction are tired of repeating themselves, myself included.  It's
> a lost cause.
> --
> Suvayu
> 
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
> 

IIUUC, this is not completely true. I believe that once both PackageKit and DNF are integrated with the new CAShe [1], we will *be able* to improve this situation [2].

[1] https://github.com/james-antill/CAShe
[2] If users/Fedora will be OK with downloading repomd.xml more often.
-- 
Radek Holý
Associate Software Engineer
Software Management Team
Red Hat Czech