On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 06:11:44PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Something's definitely not quite right with DNF's caching in F29.
> 
> I have a local LAN repository whose metadata_expire is intentionally
> set to one minute, because as soon as I have a new package to
> install I push it into the repository and then I want to have the
> update installed immediately.
> 
> Even when I explicitly specify --refresh dnf will often tell me that
> the metadata was refresh only a few hours ago, and that's it's done.
> 
> Ok, well, that's definitely more than a minute. I just run the same
> "dnf upgrade --refresh" command a second time. This always makes dnf
> redownload the repo and see the updated packages, since its metadata
> is older than the set expiration interval.
> 
> This was more stable in F28. dnf reliably refreshed the cached
> metadata when it expired. I can't quite work out what's up with dnf
> now. Sometimes it refreshes the expired metadata. Sometimes it does
> that only on a 2nd attempt. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

If you can find a reproducer, a bug report for this would be helpful.


-- 
Matthew Miller
<mat...@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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