Bug 103302 - Ability to disable update RPM pre-downloading
Summary: Ability to disable update RPM pre-downloading
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: PackageKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
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Assignee: Richard Hughes
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Reported: 2017-10-16 23:07 UTC by Marcin Zajaczkowski
Modified: 2018-08-21 15:52 UTC (History)
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Description Marcin Zajaczkowski 2017-10-16 23:07:57 UTC 
For people using dnf from the console on a daily basis it is redundant to pre-download update RPMs and keep them in the PackageKit own cache (which isn't cleared up anyway - bug 80053).

It's especially problematic for people with (relatively) small root partition on SSD drive. 30GB may be too small after some time (due to gigabytes of completely not needed RPMs).

The another use-case is using a wifi network tethered by a mobile phone with limited data connection.

It would be good to be able to disable update RPMs downloading unless a package update is requested via the PackageKit interface (in the projects configuration, gnome registry, or wherever else).
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2018-08-21 15:52:48 UTC 
We moved the upstream bugtracker to GitHub a long time ago. If this issue still affects you please re-create the issue here: https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/issues
 
Sorry for the impersonal message, and fingers crossed your issue no longer happens. Thanks.

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