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Bug 2142934

Summary: DNF deletes local packages after installation
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Renaud Métrich <rmetrich>
Component: dnfAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: swm-qe
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Version: 8.7CC: bwelterl, james.antill, jkolarik
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Description Renaud Métrich 2022-11-15 14:53:48 UTC 
Description of problem:

When installing packages hosted locally (not in a repository), DNF deletes the packages after installation, unless "--setopt keepcache=true" is used.

-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------
# yum update -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=localdir
# ls localdir/
systemd-239-68.el8.x86_64.rpm       systemd-pam-239-68.el8.x86_64.rpm
systemd-libs-239-68.el8.x86_64.rpm  systemd-udev-239-68.el8.x86_64.rpm

# yum update localdir/*.rpm
...
======================================================================================================================
 Package                      Architecture           Version                       Repository                    Size
======================================================================================================================
Upgrading:
 systemd                      x86_64                 239-68.el8                    @commandline                 3.6 M
 systemd-libs                 x86_64                 239-68.el8                    @commandline                 1.1 M
 systemd-pam                  x86_64                 239-68.el8                    @commandline                 491 k
 systemd-udev                 x86_64                 239-68.el8                    @commandline                 1.6 M

Transaction Summary
======================================================================================================================
Upgrade  4 Packages

Total size: 6.8 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
...

# ls localdir/
--> empty
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

Additionally, assuming "--setopt keepcache=true" was used, downgrading the packages (using the standard repository) deletes the local packages as well:

-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------
# ls localdir/
systemd-239-68.el8.x86_64.rpm       systemd-pam-239-68.el8.x86_64.rpm
systemd-libs-239-68.el8.x86_64.rpm  systemd-udev-239-68.el8.x86_64.rpm

# yum --setopt keepcache=true -y update localdir/*.rpm 
...

# ls localdir/
systemd-239-68.el8.x86_64.rpm       systemd-pam-239-68.el8.x86_64.rpm
systemd-libs-239-68.el8.x86_64.rpm  systemd-udev-239-68.el8.x86_64.rpm

# yum -y downgrade systemd
...

# ls localdir/
--> empty
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

dnf-4.7.0-11.el8.noarch

How reproducible:

Always, see above
Comment 1 Jan Kolarik 2022-11-16 07:17:59 UTC 
This is an already resolved issue. DNF CLI documentation is going to be updated to better inform user about this behavior starting with dnf-4.7.0-13.el8. As an workaround the 'download' command could be used. For more information please refer to the original resolving ticket https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2100811.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2100811 ***
Comment 2 Renaud Métrich 2022-11-16 07:45:45 UTC 
OK thank you.

Unfortunately the "download" feature cannot be considered as a workaround here, because it cannot be used to download only latest packages that need updating, which is customer's scenario.

I hence proposed him to execute this instead:

1. Collect what needs to be updated

 # PACKAGES=$(yum check-update -q | awk '{ print $1 }')

2. Download the packages

 # [ -n "$PACKAGES" ] && yum download $PACKAGES --destdir=localdir