On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 13:21:49 +0000 (UTC), Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:
"dnf --refresh" is more like "dnf clean
expire-cache", which sometimes
gives additional updates to plain "dnf upgrade", but there still seems
some caching involved that keeps it from providing all updates available.
Doubtful.
"dnf update --refresh" here (Rawhide) always redownloads the metadata.
That's behaviour like running after "dnf clean metadata",
not "dnf clean expire-cache". [1]
Expired metadata could be reactivated after asking mirror manager
whether they are latest.