On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 07:20:11PM +0100, Ron Yorston wrote:
>That said, I sometimes do not understand what's the harm in
getting
>updates few hours later. dnf already tells you how old the metadata is
>when it starts, you can choose to get the latest metadata if it is too
>old. So what's the big deal?
I certainly get the impression that dnf tells me about updates less
frequently than yum did. It also seems to pull in metadata less
frequently.
Keep in mind that we only push updates once per day *anyway*.
Of course, if you're mixing in private repos or other rpm providers,
there may be different policies.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader