On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 10:44:52AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: > On 20. 7. 2015 at 09:43:45, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 09:00:16AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Javier Perez <pepeb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > This is weird. > > > > > Software Updates on the Control Panel says that there are 39 updates > > > > > available > > > > > But when I run dnf update it says "Nothing to do". What gives? > > > > > > IIRC the Software Updates widget does not use dnf to check for updates, > > > therefore it's likely it has a different set of metadata at its disposal. > > > As you figured out, cleaning the MD cache helps. > > > > I'm getting a bit confused lately. How many package managers does > > Fedora have these days? IIRC, until a year or two back, it was the same > > backend (yum), but many front ends (yumex, all the packagekit based > > frontends for the different desktops). Did packagekit start doing the > > backend bits itself? > > > > From your message I understand that there are at least two different > > package managers, both are "Official" to some capacity. For cli users > > like myself, it's dnf, for gui users it's something packagekit based. > > > > Am I mistaken? > > You are not, that's pretty much it. We have had two independent software > management stacks since F21 where PackageKit (PK) switched from yum backend > to > libhif. > > At the moment PK and dnf share libraries for depsolving and downloading stuff > but other than that the code is independent. IIRC the reason is that dnf is > written in Python and that is not acceptable for PackageKit because of the > new > Gnome Software front end. It is likely that PK and dnf will share more code > in > the future but that's more of a very long term plan.
It seems a bit strange when frontends can dictate backend requirements. Also seems like a lot of duplicated effort, increased chances of bugs, and what not. Anyway, thanks for your confirmation. Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
