[CentOS] your thoughts on dnf-makecache

Mon Nov 8 12:09:27 UTC 2021
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 08.11.21 um 09:59 schrieb Götz 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