Bug 1327458

Summary: packagekit wastes my bandwidth by downloading separate metadata files
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: ahmed.alamassi
Component: gnome-softwareAssignee: Richard Hughes <rhughes>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description ahmed.alamassi 2016-04-15 07:49:36 UTC 
Description of problem:
I made a video to explain it better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLckORVQSxI

metadata is the files that contain information about repositories.
as you can see in the video I posted , the problem is that metadata files are downloaded twice.. one for dnf and one for packagekit. 

I have limited and slow internet connection . the repositories metadata is about 70 megabytes which is very pain full to download. the problem is that dnf and packagekit(gnome software-center) each one have I'ts own metadata , so the same metadata files are duplicated two times in two places /var/cache/PackageKit/ and /var/cache/dnf/ which wastes my internet bandwidth. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.18.3-1.fc23

How reproducible:
start the gnome software center

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start the gnome software center


Actual results:
It downloads large metadata files around ~70 MB

Expected results:
use the same dnf metadata 

Additional info:
this only happens in fedora , in other distros like ubuntu If I start the gnome software center it uses the same apt metadata.
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