[CentOS] your thoughts on dnf-makecache

Leon Fauster
Mon, 08 Nov 2021 12:09:27 -0000

Am 08.11.21 um 09:59 schrieb G?tz Reinicke:
> Hi,
>
>  From time to time I see different errors for dnf-makecache in the logs.
e.g. ?Errors during downloading metadata?, ?Couldn't connect to server for?,
?Timeout was reached?, ?Couldn't resolve host name " or ?Operation too
slow?.
>
> In all cases, a restart of the service solves the ?problem? and in other
cases the next run dose it.
>
> Beside having the errors, our current service monitoring triggers in most
cases a warning message, and depending on the solution recovers too, which makes
me wonder what would be the best practice for such situation.
>
> a) do I need dnf-makecache? Will it speed up things so much and makes
package management much more easy, so having some errors is o.k.?
>
> b) adjust the config for dnf-makecache, so it will trigger less errors?
>
> c) adjust our monitoring to ignore some errors or be more soft with
triggering warnings?
>
> C is the least preferred option right now.
>
> What do you think, how do you handle dnf-makecache?
>

It depends on your needs. We are okay with; stopping
and disabling dnf-makecache.timer for prod systems.

We have dnf-automatic enabled. So, the cache is
rebuilded anyway ...

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Leon