Regularly, after having updated my F21 system with dnf, I notice that apper suddenly indicates that there are a few updates available. I rerun dnf and it says nothing to do. Then, I sometimes even try yum and it also indicates that no packages are available for update.
Why does apper constantly tell me there are updates available, even after I just upgraded? What repositories does it access that the others don't? For, when I click the install button in the apper plasmoid, something does appear to occur, although it is not possible to tell, from the lack of output, whether an upgrade is, in fact, enacted, but I would presume so.
What is happening?
On 12/05/14 07:54, Peter G. wrote:
Regularly, after having updated my F21 system with dnf, I notice that apper suddenly indicates that there are a few updates available. I rerun dnf and it says nothing to do. Then, I sometimes even try yum and it also indicates that no packages are available for update.
Why does apper constantly tell me there are updates available, even after I just upgraded? What repositories does it access that the others don't? For, when I click the install button in the apper plasmoid, something does appear to occur, although it is not possible to tell, from the lack of output, whether an upgrade is, in fact, enacted, but I would presume so.
What is happening?
My understanding is that with F20 and PackageKit-yum-plugin installed you have....
PackageKit-yum-plugin tells PackageKit to check for updates when yum exits. This way, if you run 'yum update' and install all available updates, puplet will almost instantly update itself to reflect this.
This includes apper.
With PackageKit 1.0.1 the plugin feature seems to have been moved into the main body of code.
dnf doesn't have this functionality.
There is a thread about this from 11/10.
Ed Greshko wrote:
With PackageKit 1.0.1 the plugin feature seems to
have been moved into the
main body of code.
dnf doesn't have this functionality.
There is a thread about this from 11/10.
Okay. Thanks. That sounds like it might explain it. It's no big deal, just that I always wondered how there could be packages to install after I literally just did a dnf upgrade and not even yum sees these mysterious packages still to install.
I think I found a different explanation.
I must have missed it on the desktop computer, but this morning, when updating the laptop, I noticed that yum counselled me to run:
yum makecache fast
After I ran it, yum installed the packages that apper was constantly saying needed updating, even though yum never found them. Now, it did and all of the programs are in sync.
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Peter G.