Re: dnf cache downloading behavior

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On 22/07/17 22:54, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 02:06:42PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>> I dunno; what harm is there in giving the ability to use a separate
>>> user cache for queries? This allows you to do things like repoquery as
>>> an unprivileged user for repos that aren't enabled by default.
>> I'm fine with a layered approach, *if* a repo db does not exist for
>> root, then it's OK for a user copy to be downloaded, but how about one
>> for all users to share rather than each user getting a downloaded copy
>> of the same thing?
> 
> How? Setuid downloader? Or make it world-writable? Seems sketchy.
> 
>>> Hmmmm. The `dnf -C` (or --cacheonly) flag does not seem to work as
>>> documented. It says:
> [...]
>> Yep I've hit this also.
> 
> Once this is fixed, I'm going to `alias dnf='dnf -c'` in my own user
> account.

Careful there. '-c', lowercase, specifies the config file. Make sure
it's the uppercase '-C'.

(On barely tangential note, dang, I miss yum aliases capability.)

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J. Randall Owens | http://www.GhiaPet.net/

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