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How does the software-center(1) cache update process work?

Context:  If I add a third-party repository to my sources, I experience
a delay before it becomes available in the Software Center.  Consider
the following shell commands (on a fresh, patched install of
14.04-amd64):

  wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | \
        sudo apt-key add - 
  echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main" | \
        sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list
  sudo apt-get -qq update  
  apt-cache show google-talkplugin
  sudo update-software-center
  software-center &

After running these, my expectation is that the "google-talkplugin" package 
should be immediately available via the Software Center search bar, since it's 
available via apt-cache(8).   My experience is that the package will be 
unfindable until some indeterminate number of minutes later.
 
The update-software-center(8) command doesn't seem to get the job done here.  
This may be a bug in update-software-center, or may be a design problem with 
software-center.

Is there any way I can give the software-center process a swift kick to
update?  Or is there some other shell command I can run prior to ensure
that the Software Center is fully updated before presenting the GUI?

(See also https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-
center/+question/169599)

** Affects: software-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bot-comment
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Ubuntu Software Center caching problem
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1319969
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