Bug 1074194

Hello, thanks for the report. This should be configurable of course.

The 'yumdownloader' bug is 1045679.

Hm, it does not look to me that a changed subject reflects a content of the original report.  'yumdownloader' just served as an example here.  The point was that means to set "cachedir" and "reposdir" so far are missing.  The first one, for example, is routinely used by Fedora to separate old and new caches while running distro upgrades.  Hopefuly you are not planning to forget that facility.

both cachedir & repodir is listed in the public 
http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/api_conf.html

dnf.conf.Conf is merged with values from the /etc/dnf/dnf.conf by the dnf cli
so it don't look like they are going away.

a custom dnf.conf can be loaded with

dnf -c <path to conf file>

So it look like it is only the dnf.conf man page there are missing infomation about these options.

(In reply to Tim Lauridsen from comment #3)
> both cachedir & repodir is listed in the public 
> http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/api_conf.html

Indeed, although at least 'cachedir' does not specify such location (as opposed to what yum is doing) but a top directory in which dnf will build its own tree.  Likely close enough for practical purposes.   'man dnf.conf' should document that.

OTOH 'man dnf' describes "--disableexcludes=[all|main|<repoid>] ....", implying that such thing do exist but neither 'man dnf.conf' nor http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/api_conf.html mentions anything how to provide such specification.  Does this deserve a separate bugzilla report?

Also very important in many situations '--skip-broken' options apears to be AWOL (another report?)

I did try  undocumented 'cachedir' a while ago and then it was just ignored.  I considered that WIPO and did not report problems at that time.

> 
> Also very important in many situations '--skip-broken' options apears to be
> AWOL (another report?)

--skip-broken option don't exist in dnf, afaik dnf does always skip broken by default

cachedir set where the dnf cache is located.

did some testing

/home/tim/dnf/dnf.conf
[main]
cachedir=/home/tim/dnf


$ sudo dnf -c /home/tim/dnf/dnf.conf makecache

will make a fresh dnf cache in /home/tim/dnf

but it seams like it is only working as root

Sorry, to many open tabs, changed to wrong one ;-)

(In reply to Tim Lauridsen from comment #5)

> --skip-broken option don't exist in dnf, afaik dnf does always skip broken
> by default

So it does but in a clearly deficient manner.  See bug 1084129.

Hi Michael

Does this solve your needs
http://dnf-utils.readthedocs.org/en/latest/command-ref.html#dnl-command


Use these command to test the tool:

sudo dnf copr enable timlau/dnf-utils
sudo dnf install dnf-utils

The plan is move the tool into dnf-plugins-core when ready

(In reply to Tim Lauridsen from comment #9)

> Does this solve your needs

Hard to tell.  Maybe.


> Use these command to test the tool:
> 
> sudo dnf copr enable timlau/dnf-utils

A response to that is:

No such command: copr. Please use /usr/bin/dnf --help

Well, indeed, neither 'man dnf' nor 'dnf --help' mentions anything of that sort.  The same actually applies to "enable" in this context.

The general issue seems to be that 'man dnf' says "It roughly maintains  CLI  compatibility with Yum" where what "roughly" may eventually mean is anybodys guess.  At this stage I am not that interested in dnf.

you need to do a

sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core

to get access to the copr command

(In reply to Michal Jaegermann from comment #10)
> The general issue seems to be that 'man dnf' says "It roughly maintains  CLI
> compatibility with Yum" where what "roughly" may eventually mean is anybodys
> guess.  At this stage I am not that interested in dnf.

Where does the yum man page mention 'copr'? It is unfair to open bugzillas, have people work on them and then casually mention you're not interested in the project.

(In reply to Tim Lauridsen from comment #11)

> Where does the yum man page mention 'copr'?

I miss something.  Where 'copr' was mentioned in a context of yum.

> It is unfair to open bugzillas,
> have people work on them and then casually mention you're not interested in
> the project.

Well, I spent not that little time trying to figure out how I can use dnf and filing reports about what looked to me like problems.  This required somewhat more than a casual effort. It appears that dnf at this stage is still very much WIP and I need some "insider knowledge" to push that further.  A bit much for now.

the copr command added by the dnf-plugins-core, the gives you a easy way to enable this copr repository

http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/timlau/dnf-utils/

you can also download and install the .repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d

and use 'dnf install dnf-utils' to install the test package and

test the 'dnf dnl' command supplied by the package, to see if solves the same
need as yumdownloader does.

download command is added to dnf-plugins-core-0.0.8, available in fedora updates

http://dnf-plugins-core.readthedocs.org/en/latest/download.html