Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/26/24 1:38 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 26/11/24 11:32, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/25/24 1:49 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 25/11/24 18:42, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/24/24 2:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I have to questions around what that command is doing. 1).    Why is it produc

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:38 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Which then begs the question, if I issue the command "sudo dnf clean > all" which cleans out the system state, does it also clean out the > current user's data if it exists as well, or do you have to issue the > command not under sudo as we

Re: QR code scanning

2024-11-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 8:55 PM Tim via users wrote: > > On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 16:34 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I want to read a code that comes to me via web page. > > My usual browser is firefox. > > I'm kind of curious what websites give you a QR code to scan, but don't > give you any l

Re: DNF Upgrade Query

2024-11-26 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 09:20 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > When I issue the command "sudo dnf upgrade", and it decides it needs > to update and refresh all repositories, with the command I've just > issued I noticed that it refreshed the google-chrome repository > twice. Why is DNF doing that when

Re: QR code scanning

2024-11-26 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 16:34 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I want to read a code that comes to me via web page. > My usual browser is firefox. I'm kind of curious what websites give you a QR code to scan, but don't give you any link to click on. Have you seen if the QR image is a normal link, t

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:46 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > This is true, and I know this can be done under DNF, but I'm using > that to decide whether it is worth doing the upgrade in terms of the > volume of updates that will be put on. If there are only 3 updates to > put on then its not necessar

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:30 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > My main concern was, if I use dnf to install a local rpm and > afterwards I issue sudo dnf clean all to reclaim space (not that at > the moment I have a need to be concerned about disk space) does that > remove knowledge of the rpm having b

Re: Curl Errors During DNF Repository Refresh

2024-11-26 Thread Tim via users
Tim: > > It's important to note that a router has a finite number of connections > > it can manage, and processing power available for its tiny operating > > system. If you have some software that's gone mad making hundreds of > > connections, and not dropping them, the router can stop working.

Re: DNF Upgrade Query

2024-11-26 Thread Barry
> On 26 Nov 2024, at 22:21, Stephen Morris wrote: > >  Hi, > When I issue the command "sudo dnf upgrade", and it decides it needs to > update and refresh all repositories, with the command I've just issued I > noticed that it refreshed the google-chrome repository twice. Why is DNF > do

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 27/11/24 09:17, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:51 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: On 26/11/24 12:10, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-11-26 at 09:02 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I assumed that when dnf retrieved it's metadata it was updating the standard system locations

DNF Upgrade Query

2024-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     When I issue the command "sudo dnf upgrade", and it decides it needs to update and refresh all repositories, with the command I've just issued I noticed that it refreshed the google-chrome repository twice. Why is DNF doing that when there is only one repository definition in the .repo

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:51 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 26/11/24 12:10, Tim via users wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-11-26 at 09:02 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > > I assumed that when dnf retrieved it's metadata it was updating the > > > standard system locations which a normal user can't update,

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 27/11/24 08:50, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Nov 26, 2024, at 16:30, Stephen Morris wrote: My main concern was, if I use dnf to install a local rpm and afterwards I issue sudo dnf clean all to reclaim space (not that at the moment I have a need to be concerned about disk space) does that rem

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 26/11/24 12:10, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-11-26 at 09:02 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I assumed that when dnf retrieved it's metadata it was updating the standard system locations which a normal user can't update, I didn't know it was caching the data elsewhere. If you haven't given

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Nov 26, 2024, at 16:30, Stephen Morris wrote: > My main concern was, if I use dnf to install a local rpm and afterwards I > issue sudo dnf clean all to reclaim space (not that at the moment I have a > need to be concerned about disk space) does that remove knowledge of the rpm > having been

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 26/11/24 11:35, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/25/24 2:02 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 25/11/24 22:43, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 09:04 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: 1).    Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading repositories:" and "Repositories loaded." with nothing betw

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 26/11/24 11:32, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/25/24 1:49 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 25/11/24 18:42, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/24/24 2:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I have to questions around what that command is doing. 1).    Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading repo

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 26/11/24 09:47, Will McDonald wrote: Repo metadata is this stuff: https://blog.packagecloud.io/yum-repository-internals/ It's hosted remotely with the repositories, mirrored locally for speed when cache expires and is pretty much entirely throwaway, because you can (normally) always get a

Re: Curl Errors During DNF Repository Refresh

2024-11-26 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 12:12 AM Tim via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Sun, 2024-11-24 at 10:21 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > > It is possible my router/modem were playing up, as afterwards I was > > having issues with maintaining internet connections in Windows while > > p

Re: QR code scanning

2024-11-26 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 9:17 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, Chris Adams wrote: > > > Once upon a time, Michael Hennebry > said: > >> Any suggestion on what QR code reader to use > >> with firefox on FC39 or FC40? > > > > If CLI is okay, save an