Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-24 Thread White, Langdon
On Jun 21, 2014 12:26 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: what you or i prefer don't matter Sure it does. Otherwise you would not insist that your perspective is the only right one and everyone else who has a different

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-23 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 06/20/2014 09:10 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: Dnf doesn't know anything about your network connection and I'm not even sure it should ... I can imagine a high level orchestration tool for the entire system to do stuff like this but that's out of our scope. I just filed NetworkManager RFE RFE: add

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.06.2014 03:03, schrieb Dan Williams: On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 23:27 +0200, poma wrote: This is super duper, however if wwan is on the router as Ranhald wrote, you can only click your heels three times and repeat, There's no place like home. Certainly. But that doesn't mean we

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
HI On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: stop the automatic bandwidth wasting at all and you don't have to fix anything - don't you realize that this 50% are the ones with the slow WAN and the ones with fast internet don't need prefetch of metadata at all? Even if I have a

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.06.2014 16:42, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: stop the automatic bandwidth wasting at all and you don't have to fix anything - don't you realize that this 50% are the ones with the slow WAN and the ones with fast internet

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-21 Thread drago01
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 21.06.2014 16:42, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: stop the automatic bandwidth wasting at all and you don't have to fix anything - don't you realize that this

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.06.2014 17:20, schrieb drago01: On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 21.06.2014 16:42, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: stop the automatic bandwidth wasting at all and you don't have to

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-21 Thread poma
On 21.06.2014 03:03, Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 23:27 +0200, poma wrote: On 20.06.2014 17:55, Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 08:55 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith jsm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM,

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-21 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Zdenek Kabelac zkabe...@redhat.com wrote: Also for years Debian supplies short update 'diffs' - so user doesn't have to download multiple MB sized files - just couple short small files - again something much nicer then running a daemon to download tens of MB on

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: what you or i prefer don't matter Sure it does. Otherwise you would not insist that your perspective is the only right one and everyone else who has a different perspective is always wrong in any such discussion. the ordinary

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread drago01
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith jsm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: if *that* is what is supposed to make DNF faster it's just a lie This is not the only thing that DNF does differently to try to make

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Jan Zelený
On 19. 6. 2014 at 14:24:39, Jon wrote: and BTW i am not playing around that much on my Rawhide VM but had *two times* today by type dnf whatever the there is already an instance, wating for PID... nonsense caused by the background metadata refresh do you *really* think that's a good

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Jan Zelený
On 20. 6. 2014 at 08:55:18, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith jsm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: if *that* is what is supposed to make DNF faster it's just a lie This is not the

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:55 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith jsm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: if *that* is what is supposed to make DNF faster it's just a lie

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Jan Zelený
the failed to load plugin copr is also just a bug In that case please file it here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora It is already filed and a fix is on the way: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104088 Thanks Jan -- devel mailing list

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.06.2014 08:55, schrieb drago01: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith jsm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Whether you like it or not, one of the most common complaints about yum (especially from people

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.06.2014 09:11, schrieb Jan Zelený: On 19. 6. 2014 at 14:24:39, Jon wrote: and BTW i am not playing around that much on my Rawhide VM but had *two times* today by type dnf whatever the there is already an instance, wating for PID... nonsense caused by the background metadata refresh

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Mat Booth
On 20 June 2014 10:19, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.06.2014 08:55, schrieb drago01: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith jsm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Whether you like it or

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.06.2014 11:57, schrieb Mat Booth: On 20 June 2014 10:19, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.06.2014 08:55, schrieb drago01: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith jsm...@fedoraproject.org

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Jan Zelený
On 20. 6. 2014 at 11:22:15, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 20.06.2014 09:11, schrieb Jan Zelený: On 19. 6. 2014 at 14:24:39, Jon wrote: and BTW i am not playing around that much on my Rawhide VM but had *two times* today by type dnf whatever the there is already an instance, wating for PID...

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.06.2014 12:23, schrieb Jan Zelený: On 20. 6. 2014 at 11:22:15, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 20.06.2014 09:11, schrieb Jan Zelený: On 19. 6. 2014 at 14:24:39, Jon wrote: and BTW i am not playing around that much on my Rawhide VM but had *two times* today by type dnf whatever the there is

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Jan Zelený
On 20. 6. 2014 at 12:29:32, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 20.06.2014 12:23, schrieb Jan Zelený: On 20. 6. 2014 at 11:22:15, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 20.06.2014 09:11, schrieb Jan Zelený: On 19. 6. 2014 at 14:24:39, Jon wrote: and BTW i am not playing around that much on my Rawhide VM but had

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.06.2014 12:36, schrieb Mat Booth: On 20 June 2014 11:19, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.06.2014 11:57, schrieb Mat Booth: On 20 June 2014 10:19, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Mat Booth
On 20 June 2014 11:50, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.06.2014 12:36, schrieb Mat Booth: On 20 June 2014 11:19, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net mailto: h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.06.2014 11:57, schrieb Mat Booth: On 20 June 2014 10:19,

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Mat Booth
On 20 June 2014 12:04, Mat Booth fed...@matbooth.co.uk wrote: On 20 June 2014 11:50, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.06.2014 12:36, schrieb Mat Booth: On 20 June 2014 11:19, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net mailto: h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread drago01
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.06.2014 11:57, schrieb Mat Booth: On 20 June 2014 10:19, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.06.2014 08:55, schrieb drago01: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.06.2014 13:04, schrieb Mat Booth: On 20 June 2014 11:50, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.06.2014 12:36, schrieb Mat Booth: On 20 June 2014 11:19, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.06.2014 13:13, schrieb drago01: On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: your whole machine has no idea about your WAN connection As he said there is a NM API but it is indeed somehow limited as the example you mentioned shows also it

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us wrote: In testing dnf on rawhide I nearly always do dnf clean metadata dnf update purely because I found most of the time dnfs metadata was out of date. To me dnf fetching the metadata behind the scenes just doesn't work right.

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.06.2014 14:04, schrieb Tim Lauridsen: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us mailto:den...@ausil.us wrote: In testing dnf on rawhide I nearly always do dnf clean metadata dnf update purely because I found most of the time dnfs metadata was out of

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 20.06.2014 14:11, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 20.06.2014 14:04, schrieb Tim Lauridsen: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us mailto:den...@ausil.us wrote: In testing dnf on rawhide I nearly always do dnf clean metadata dnf update purely because I found most

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 02:39:25PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 20.06.2014 14:11, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 20.06.2014 14:04, schrieb Tim Lauridsen: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us mailto:den...@ausil.us wrote: In testing dnf on rawhide I

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Dne 20.6.2014 15:52, Chuck Anderson napsal(a): On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 02:39:25PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 20.06.2014 14:11, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 20.06.2014 14:04, schrieb Tim Lauridsen: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us mailto:den...@ausil.us

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 08:55 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith jsm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: if *that* is what is supposed to make DNF faster it's just a lie This is

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread poma
On 20.06.2014 17:55, Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 08:55 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith jsm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: if *that* is what is supposed to make DNF

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-20 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 23:27 +0200, poma wrote: On 20.06.2014 17:55, Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 08:55 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith jsm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread Reindl Harald
that's not the question the question is why such traffic wasting *defaults* Am 19.06.2014 19:40, schrieb Gerald B. Cox: You might want to review: http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/user_faq.html It contains information on how to disable the automatic metadata updates... On Thu, Jun 19, 2014

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
You might want to review: http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/user_faq.html It contains information on how to disable the automatic metadata updates... On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: why does DNF refresh metadata in background? that has no benefit,

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread Jon
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: that's not the question the question is why such traffic wasting *defaults* I might be way off base here, but in an effort to make DNF go faster compared to YUM, the idea was made to have it pre-fetch metadata ahead

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread Petr Viktorin
On 06/19/2014 07:14 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: why does DNF refresh metadata in background? To quote Aleš Kozumplík from [a previous mail]: | majority of people appreciates having the metadata handy and only a minority worries about the traffic. [a previous mail]

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.06.2014 19:57, schrieb Jon: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: that's not the question the question is why such traffic wasting *defaults* I might be way off base here, but in an effort to make DNF go faster compared to YUM, the idea was

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread Dennis Gilmore
In testing dnf on rawhide I nearly always do dnf clean metadata dnf update purely because I found most of the time dnfs metadata was out of date. To me dnf fetching the metadata behind the scenes just doesn't work right. But I'm not sure that me or rawhide fits into the experience dnf is

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread Jared K. Smith
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: if *that* is what is supposed to make DNF faster it's just a lie This is not the only thing that DNF does differently to try to make package installations and updates go faster (or appear to go faster). Calling the

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.06.2014 20:59, schrieb Jared K. Smith: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: if *that* is what is supposed to make DNF faster it's just a lie This is not the only thing that DNF does differently to try to

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.06.2014 21:09, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 19.06.2014 20:59, schrieb Jared K. Smith: Sure, but you have to understand -- you're a power user. You know enough to do this in yum for your particular use case, which means you probably know enough to change the DNF settings with regards

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread Jon
and BTW i am not playing around that much on my Rawhide VM but had *two times* today by type dnf whatever the there is already an instance, wating for PID... nonsense caused by the background metadata refresh do you *really* think that's a good user-expierience? No, that is unfortunate,

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 01:47:27PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: In testing dnf on rawhide I nearly always do dnf clean metadata dnf update purely because I found most of the time dnfs metadata was out of date. To me dnf fetching the metadata behind the scenes just doesn't work right. But I'm

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread Heiko Adams
Adding alias Update='sudo dnf --refresh update' to your .bashrc will safe you that bit of typing every time you want to do an update ;) -- Regards, Heiko Adams Am Donnerstag, den 19.06.2014, 16:35 -0400 schrieb Matthew Miller: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 01:47:27PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
FYI... update is a deprecated alias for the upgrade command​, and has been for a couple of years. Don't know when they're going to phase it out, but probably a good idea to switch over to get used to it. Also, to make the changes more permanent, add the following lines to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread J. Randall Owens
On 06/19/2014 03:42 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: FYI... update is a deprecated alias for the upgrade command​, and has been for a couple of years. Don't know when they're going to phase it out, but probably a good idea to switch over to get used to it. On a bit of a tangent, per the current

Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

2014-06-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:33 PM, J. Randall Owens jrowens.fed...@ghiapet.net wrote: On a bit of a tangent, per the current yum-3.4.3 man page: upgrade Is the same as the update command with the --obsoletes flag set. See update for more details. We're