Brave Browser update issue
$ sudo dnf upgrade
Gives me: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'brave-browser', disabling.
How can I solve this?
2 Answers
If anybody has used this work-around, I strongly recommend you undo it:
chattr -i /etc/cron.daily/brave-browser
If you don't do this before upgrading to 0.63, you won't get the fix that got added in https://github.com/brave/brave-core/p....
At the stroke of midnight, Brave runs a script on Fedora that destroys its own repository. This makes it impossible to update brave without some manual repair. The following sets of commands works-around the issue:
# Disable the daily self-destruction script by replacing it with an empty file
echo "" > /etc/cron.daily/brave-browser
# Ensure the file isn’t restored by future updates to Brave
chattr +i /etc/cron.daily/brave-browser
To repair a broken repository file edit /etc/yum.repos.d/brave-browser.repo and set the baseurl option to https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64/ replacing http://dl.google.com/….
The upstream issue is brave/brave-code#1553.
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Asked: 2018-10-23 15:47:46 -0500
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Last updated: Feb 04 '19
It depends on what you do with this repository. Do you still need it? If not, delete “/etc/yum.repos.d/brave-browser.repo” or better disable it (take a look at the file, setting is obvious) If you still need it, contact the repo owner for a fix.
Thanks! I'm guessing that I would need the repo to keep the Brave browser up to date?
Generally speaking yes, If you still have the browser installed keep the repo enabled and tell the maintainer/owner of the repo that it is not available for syncing. Sometimes this can be a temporary problem - so try again a few hours/days later and see what happens. If the problem persists contact the repo owner!