dnf update vs Software Udpates

[Rick Stevens]

On 07/22/2015 10:38 AM, Maurizio Marini wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 20:33:27 -0400
> Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 02:10:10AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>>> I'm sorry but "clean all" is not necessary at all!  "clean metadata" or
>>> "clean expire-cache" should be sufficient.
>>
>> You don't even need to do that. Just use the --refresh flag -- `dnf
>> --refresh upgrade`.
>
>
> dnf --refresh upgrade
> does not work for me
>
> dnf clean expire-cache
> does not work for me
>
> dnf clean metadata
> does work instaed

I think that was a typo. You need:

	dnf --refresh update

Running it on my machine:

[root at prophead conf]# dnf --refresh update
RPM Fusion for Fedora 21 - Free - Updates        44 kB/s | 406 kB 
00:09
Adobe Systems Incorporated                      1.2 kB/s | 1.8 kB 
00:01
RPM Fusion for Fedora 21 - Nonfree - Updates    543 kB/s | 152 kB 
00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 21 - Free                  17 kB/s | 508 kB 
00:29
google-chrome                                    77 kB/s | 3.5 kB 
00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 21 - Nonfree              527 kB/s | 179 kB 
00:00
Using metadata from Wed Jul 22 10:49:27 2015 (0:00:52 hours old)
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
  Package                  Arch       Version            Repository 
     Size
================================================================================
Upgrading:
  google-chrome-stable     x86_64     44.0.2403.89-1     google-chrome 
     46 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Upgrade  1 Package

Total download size: 46 M
Is this ok [y/N]:

This was on a machine that had been fully updated yesterday.
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