Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1261766
RFE: way to force no metadata expiration system-wide
Last modified: 2015-10-05 17:53:06 EDT
Description of problem: I set metadata_expire=never in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf I then expect dnf to always use a cache e.g. when I do dnf search. but this does not prevent dnf from re-downloading metadata every couple of days. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dnf-1.1.0-2.fc22.noarch How reproducible: every couple of days Steps to Reproduce: 1. set metadata_expire=never 2. dnf search <some package> every couple of days Actual results: dnf goes on the network and downloads something from Fedora repo displaying progress bar (I'm not sure it's metadata, but what else is needed for search command?) Expected results: No network activity as long as metadata is not manually cleaned or new repo isn't added. Additional info:
I think I see the issue. Individual repo files override metadata_expire. I think there needs to be a way to force no meta data expiration system wide without editing each repo file. Changed BZ title to RFE accordingly. Documentation for dnf.conf should probably mention that repo conf takes precedence over the global config and not the other way around.
The documentation of dnf already mentions that fact - http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/conf_ref.html#options-for-both-main-and-repo .
but man dnf doesn't. it just says DNF by default uses the global configuration file at /etc/dnf/dnf.conf and all *.repo files found under /etc/yum.repos.d. The latter is typically used for repository configuration.
man dnf.conf of course
Actually since both the man pages and the web page are built from the same source, both say (almost) the same: man dnf.conf | grep -C 2 'concrete' Some options can be applied in either the main section, per repository, or in a combination. The value provided in the main section is used for all repositories as the default value and concrete repositories can override it in their configuration.
hawkey-0.6.1-1.fc23 dnf-plugins-core-0.1.12-2.fc23 dnf-1.1.2-2.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-16428
dnf-plugins-core-0.1.12-2.fc22 hawkey-0.6.1-1.fc22 dnf-1.1.2-2.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-16429
dnf-1.1.2-2.fc23, dnf-plugins-core-0.1.12-2.fc23, hawkey-0.6.1-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with $ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update dnf-plugins-core dnf hawkey' You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-16428
dnf-1.1.2-2.fc22, dnf-plugins-core-0.1.12-2.fc22, hawkey-0.6.1-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with $ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update dnf-plugins-core dnf hawkey' You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-16429
dnf-plugins-core-0.1.12-3.fc23 hawkey-0.6.1-2.fc23 dnf-1.1.2-4.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-38e69423f3
dnf-plugins-core-0.1.12-3.fc22 hawkey-0.6.1-2.fc22 dnf-1.1.2-4.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-3528c659e4
dnf-1.1.2-4.fc22, dnf-plugins-core-0.1.12-3.fc22, hawkey-0.6.1-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with $ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update hawkey dnf-plugins-core dnf' You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-3528c659e4
dnf-1.1.2-4.fc23, dnf-plugins-core-0.1.12-3.fc23, hawkey-0.6.1-2.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with $ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update hawkey dnf-plugins-core dnf' You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-38e69423f3
dnf-1.1.2-4.fc23, dnf-plugins-core-0.1.12-3.fc23, hawkey-0.6.1-2.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
dnf-1.1.2-4.fc22, dnf-plugins-core-0.1.12-3.fc22, hawkey-0.6.1-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.