On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:59:48 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> If the metadata is expired, why is it being checked for currency?
User tells the tool the metadata are expired. Whether that is true,
remains to be seen. They are still in the local cache, and the
mirroring system may tell that there are no different metadata. Then
there's no need to redownload them.
If the documentation is not accurate, and if --refresh removes the
cached metadata always, then the developers ought to make that clear.
--refresh
set metadata as expired before running the command
dnf clean expire-cache
Removes local cookie files saying when the metadata and mir‐
rorlists were downloaded for each repo. DNF will re-validate the
cache for each repo the next time it is used.
dnf clean metadata
Removes repository metadata. Those are the files which DNF uses
to determine the remote availability of packages. Using this
option will make DNF download all the metadata the next time it
is run.
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