From the changelong: * Thu May 25 2023 Jan Kolarik <jkolarik> - 4.16.0-1 - Update to 4.16.0 - Remove ownership of dnf.conf, protected.d, vars /etc/dnf/dnf.conf got moved to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf - as a result, and the next time I ran dnf, it misbehaved because it no longer saw the cachedir= and exclude= values I had configured. Fortunately, I noticed the issue and was able to abort at the "Is this ok [y/N]:" prompt. Reproducible: Always
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2210694 ***