On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 22:36 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Adam Williamson writes: > > > > > All dnf's 'nice features' aren't really there for a system update, > > are > > they? > > Well what are they there for, then?
Querying the package database and installing new packages. A system update, on the other hand, is...it's not *configurable*, really. You say 'update my system, please!' and you get an updated system. That's kind of it. I'm just struggling to think which of the 'features and functionality' of dnf Gerald was talking about in the context of doing a system update. I think the most I'd ever use would be --enablerepo / --disablerepo , and --nogpgcheck (and hopefully we'll never need that one again anyway, now). But I was talking to Gerald, not you. I'm not really sure why you keep jumping in and prolonging this thread - you apparently didn't hit the bug, and you certainly know enough about the tech to drive your own personal updates however you choose. What exactly is your goal here? > Hmmm… Right now, running "pkcon get-updates" claims "There are no > updates > available at this time.", meanwhile "dnf upgrade" shows 68 packages > that can > be updated. "pkcon refresh" doesn't change anything. I don't actually have much experience of driving it through pkcon, I've only ever used the GNOME Software route, where the refresh button more or less seems to do what it claims. I don't use the offline updates stuff on my own servers, I'm okay with just letting dnf-automatic do them. My personal fuzzy evaluation is that the you get about 90% of the safety gain going from 'run in a terminal in X' to 'run in a VT', offline updates get you another 10%, and I'm okay with that tradeoff for my machines because they're just not terribly important. If I was running a gajillion dollar server farm I'd probably have different considerations. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
