On 27/6/21 22:52, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 27/06/2021 20:45, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 27/06/2021 20:43, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 27/06/2021 20:34, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>> I hadn't realised Discover was using Packagekit. If it is using
>>> different mirrors to dnf and they indicate they have updates over
>>> and above what dnf has applied, does that mean dnf will catch up,
>>> or are
>>> they updates that dnf will never put on because it never sees them?
>>
>> Oh, dnf will "catch up" as more mirrors are synced. You'll never
>> have a case where an update is available via PK but never
>> becomes available when using dnf.
>>
>>>
>>> While we are on the topic of updates with dnf, I have noticed that
>>> when dnf goes to a mirror to find an update, if it can't find the
>>> package it produces a 404 error, and keeps producing that error
>>> when it goes to the next mirror, etc. Is there any way to get dnf
>>> to only produce the 404
>>> error if the required package can't be found in any mirror?
>>
>> It gets the 404 error since it uses curl to download.
>>
>> I see no way to avoid what you've seen. It happens only
>> occasionally so I never thought about it.
>>
>
> Hit send before I completed my thought.
>
> I think it "wise" to do as poc has done. Get rid of packageKit and
> plasma-discover. Running 2 update utilities can
> lead to confusion.
>
Again with the fast finger.
I always install dnfdragora-updater and use that for notifications of
when package updates are available. But, I use dnf
from the command line to do the actual update as I have an alias to do
the update via dnf and that is
easier than clicking on things and I like to see what is going on.
I normally use
dnf to apply updates and use dnfdragora to browse the
repositories to see what is available and what might be useful to me. I
haven't installed dnfdragora-updater (I had forgotten that was
available) as yet, but I should as discover is notifying of updates.
The only reason I went to Discover to check updates after putting on the
updates that dnf provided, was I was once in a situation where I was
trying to use a product that wasn't installed and I was given
installation instructions to install it via Discover, but I couldn't
find it in Discover nor dnf so I installed it via a flatpak
(unfortunately I don't remember what the product was).
regards,
Steve