On 12/19/18 4:29 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/18/18 12:25 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:13:45 -0800 >> Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> This turns off the automatic checking and downloading of updates by >>> Gnome Software and any other PackageKit based system. But there is also >>> a cron job for dnf that updates the metadata regularly (daily?). If >>> that's a concern for you, you can disable that one as well. >> >> But as I discovered, if you disable that, and simply run >> >> dnf update >> >> it will never think there are any updates available. >> >> To update entirely manually, I need to run: >> >> dnf makecache >> dnf update > > I thought you just needed to run it twice. Isn't there a bug filed for that? > But also, > I've never run into this. I haven't disabled the cron job, but sometimes dnf > will still > check and download updated metadata when I run it. >
By "cron job" don't you mean dnf-makecache.timer in systemd? And, didn't we beat this subject to death not to long ago? I still *never* have to run a dnf command twice. I created an alias which does "dnf --refresh upgrade". -- Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color scheme _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
