On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mr...@courier-mta.com>
wrote:

> It is relatively simple to temporarily edit the .conf files in
> /etc/yum.repos.d for whatever custom repository you have that have a short
> expiration period, and set them to a month, or something. Then, delete
> everything that was downloaded the first time, and do a 'dnf system-upgrade
> download' again.
>
> This should put a sufficiently long metadata expiration on the downloaded
> packages so that dnf doesn't try to refresh them during a 'dnf
> system-upgrade reboot'. After the upgrade restore the original expiration
> settings, and do a 'dnf clean all'.


It's a machine I don't use very often so no hurry and at this point it's
more on principal :) I admittedly only skimmed both the bugzilla and the
github issue but I didn't see any response from the dnf team. This seems
serious enough to warrant attention.

Thanks,
Richard
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