Fedora 29, Although I have configured the repos as metadata-expires to 7d, dnf downloads them randomly throughout the day! (obviously only when I run some dnf install command). It is almost more than 60MB of data it downloads. So, how to make it so that it will not download the meta data unless I explicitly do that ?
You could add
metadata_timer_sync=0
to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf to completely disable automatic metadata synchronizing.
See [1] for information on what that does.
Another option is to set
metadata_expire=-1
to make the repo never considered expired. You can do this for certain repos or globally in dnf.conf.
Under [1] it also says: Expire of metadata can bee also triggered by change of timestamp of configuration files (dnf.conf, <repo>.repo). See also check_config_file_age([2]). So, at some point you want to stop messing around with dnf.conf and *.repo and let dnf do its thing.
Asked: 2018-11-27 07:01:55 -0500
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You have changed the option to 7d for all repos that are enabled on your system? And you are not using the --refresh option?!
Metadata downloads should be smaller with Fedora 30 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Change... so in a couple of months things should improve. In the meantime @florian's answer should help.