where does dnf5 stores it's history ?

[old sixpack13]

with dnf4 the dnf history was stored somewhere under /var/cache or /var/lib and was clearable by removing store files therein

how does one nowerdays with dnf5 clear the dnf history ?

[old sixpack13]

got it: /usr/lib/sysimage/libdnf5

[George N. White III]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM old sixpack13  wrote:
> with dnf4 the dnf history was stored somewhere under /var/cache or /var/lib and was clearable by removing store files therein
>
> how does one nowerdays with dnf5 clear the dnf history ?

/var/log/dnf5.log*

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM old sixpack13  wrote:
> with dnf4 the dnf history was stored somewhere under /var/cache or /var/lib and was clearable by removing store files therein
>
> how does one nowerdays with dnf5 clear the dnf history ?

Related, DNF5 stores its database at /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite. If
you issue `dnf history list` then DNF pulls from the SQLites database.

If you want to clear the history from the database, then see
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/prune-dnf-history-database/78184/.

Jeff

[old sixpack13]

Jeffrey Walton wrote:
...
> > Related, DNF5 stores its database at /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite. If

/var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite is absent here or you meant DNF4
under /var/lib/dnf/ I have repos/

history seems to be stored under /usr/lib/sysimage/libdnf5/ in transaction_history.sqlite

===
but another question:
why does dnf5 (it seems only sometimes !) stores repos data under ~/cache/libdnf5 and /var/cache/libdnf5 ?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM old sixpack13  wrote:
> Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> ...
> > > Related, DNF5 stores its database at /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite. If
>
> /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite is absent here or you meant DNF4
> under /var/lib/dnf/ I have repos/
>
> history seems to be stored under /usr/lib/sysimage/libdnf5/ in transaction_history.sqlite

Yeah, the machine I checked that on was dnf-system-upgraded. I guess
it uses the old database in that case. (I did verify the records were
current, so I know it is being used with F41).
> but another question:
> why does dnf5 (it seems only sometimes !) stores repos data under ~/cache/libdnf5 and /var/cache/libdnf5 ?

I don't know.

Jeff

[Ralf Corsépius]

Am 21.01.25 um 4:29 PM schrieb Jeffrey Walton:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM old sixpack13  wrote:
> > but another question:
> > why does dnf5 (it seems only sometimes !) stores repos data under ~/cache/libdnf5 and /var/cache/libdnf5 ?
>
> I don't know.

AFAICT, when running dnf5 as ordinary user (e.g. dnf repoquery), it uses 
~/cache/libdnf5, when running as root (e.g. for real updates) it uses
/var/cache/libdnf5

Ralf

[old sixpack13]

Jeffrey Walton wrote:
...
> > Yeah, the machine I checked that on was dnf-system-upgraded. I guess
>
> it uses the old database in that case. (I did verify the records were
> current, so I know it is being used with F41).

here it's an upgraded box too.
yesterday I run "dnf history list" with a lot of output while /var/lib/dnf/ was empty.

only since I deleted  /usr/lib/sysimage/libdnf5/*history.sqlite* "dnf history list" had zero output

[old sixpack13]

Ralf Corsépius wrote:
....
> > AFAICT, when running dnf5 as ordinary user (e.g. dnf repoquery), it uses
>
> ~/cache/libdnf5, when running as root (e.g. for real updates) it uses
> /var/cache/libdnf5
> Ralf

seems to be the case
Thanks