Description of problem: If you install the DNF 'local' plugin and then fix bug 1236747 by manually mkdir'ing /var/lib/dnf/plugins/local, DNF will now save copies of your RPMs as you want but most DNF operations will report the error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo '_dnf_local', disabling. This is essentially the Fedora 24 version of bug 1209862, which has just been closed as EOL on Fedora 22. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python3-dnf-plugins-extras-local-0.0.12-3.fc24.noarch dnf-1.1.9-2.fc24.noarch How reproducible: Totally. Steps to Reproduce: 1. dnf install python3-dnf-plugins-extras-local 2. mkdir /var/lib/dnf/plugins/local 3. dnf install <some package> Actual results: dnf reports: Failed to synchronize cache for repo '_dnf_local', disabling. Expected results: dnf doesn't report any errors or warnings. Additional info: Running 'createrepo_c /var/lib/dnf/plugins/local' appears to fix the problem but I have no idea what side effects it has. Perhaps this will be fixed with the proper fix to bug 1236747, but I have no idea how this stuff is supposed to be done and this whole area has been neglected for a year. I'm refiling this bug so that it doesn't get forgotten; the local plugin is important since Fedora update packages do periodically have bugs and the repos purge old versions quite fast.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1209862 ***