On 02/03/2016 05:28 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Do you mean a sequence of 'dnf' commands with arguments   g* i*, followed by kd*, then by  kf*, etc., or
am I missing something about the commas?
On a space-constrained system, how about doing
 
for a in {a..z} {A..Z} ; do dnf update $a'*'; done

I think this solves the caching problem as well as not matching local files, at the expense of taking much longer to run due to repeated checking of metadata. If it turns out that the caches are not cleared, you could add explicit purge command.