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Bug 1950041

Summary:	PackageKit metadata refresh fail: .repo file metadata_expire changes
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Component:	PackageKit	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <rhughes>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	34	CC:	gnome-sig, jonathan, ngompa13, rdieter, rhughes, smparrish
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Description Rex Dieter 2021-04-15 15:52:10 UTC

Could be a feature not a bug, but thought I'd mention in case it's possible to address.

While testing PK metadata cache issues, I found a case where dnf and PK metadata cache's were out of sync (not uncommon).  dnf reported a pkg foo from repo bar had an update available, but PK didn't refresh yet.  The Packagekit metadata was somewhere between 12-24hrs old, at least by eyeballing timestamps of stuff under /var/cache/PackageKit/

As a test, I went to the bar.repo file and added
metadata_expire=1h

and ran:
pkcon refresh

I was expecting PackageKit to refresh the repo bar metadata and report and update available, except it didn't. :(

Comment 1 Neal Gompa 2021-04-15 16:18:50 UTC

The only change I've seen here on this is: https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/commit/54a616b8edb8391f90ae183989bd98aa87e26b14

Prior to that was my change to read all repo and var directories: https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/commit/ed73aa6317595d2c2f1bda7990cbd64efb133f84

Neither of which should have had an impact on this...