dnf installs cron.hourly

[Tom Hughes]

On 15/03/13 11:33, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 07:16:27AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
>> I don't think users would expect that install of dnf would without asking (or
>> control) automatically run dnf-makecache.
>
> Heh. That's one of the things I love about DNF. No longer having to wait
> a long time for repo downloads when runing 'dnf' because the cron job has
> already cached it, is great. I wish yum would do this by default too!

Well yum does in F18 at least for anybody running PackageKit as it will 
do the downloads in the background by default.

This is of course intensely annoying to anybody with time of day based 
bandwidth restrictions/charges, especially since it is not well 
advertised or easy to turn off. A bug complaining about this has now 
been ignored for nearly two months:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890070

Note that the settings change is per-user, so if you have multiple 
desktop users you need to make sure that they all disable downloads...

Tom

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