Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> writes:
All PackageKit based software managers automatically download the
data, as the Dnf PK backend does this:
https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/blob/master/backends/dnf/pk-backend...
Ahh, thanks! "pkcon refresh force" indeed downloads it for me.
Great, thanks for showing me this. I must have confused myself somehow.