[OE-core] [PATCH] package_manager: force dnf to refresh the cache

Ross Burton ross.burton at intel.com
Mon Nov 27 18:28:11 UTC 2017


DNF has a time-based cache policy (and a great sense of humour) so it's possible
that 'dnf makecache' won't actually refresh any caches.  Force the cache updates
by passing --refresh.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
---
 meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py
index 6cbb61fd849..ef69b18b642 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ class RpmPM(PackageManager):
         return packages
 
     def update(self):
-        self._invoke_dnf(["makecache"])
+        self._invoke_dnf(["makecache", "--refresh"])
 
     def _invoke_dnf(self, dnf_args, fatal = True, print_output = True ):
         os.environ['RPM_ETCCONFIGDIR'] = self.target_rootfs
-- 
2.11.0




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