On 7 September 2015 at 10:26, arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 10:23 AM, arnaud gaboury
<arnaud.gaboury@gmail.com> wrote:
> % dnf download --source R
> enabling fedora-source repository
> enabling updates-source repository
> Last metadata expiration check performed 0:13:28 ago on Mon SepĀ  7
> 10:06:57 2015.
> [SKIPPED] R-3.2.1-2.fc22.src.rpm: Already downloaded
> The downloaded packages were saved in cache till the next successful
> transaction.
> You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'
>
> % sudo dnf clean packages
> [sudo] password for poisonivy:
> Cleaning repos: fedora updates
> 0 package files removed
>
> then % dnf download --source R again, but same output.
>
> % cat /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
> [main]
> gpgcheck=1
> installonly_limit=3
> clean_requirements_on_remove=true
>
>
> I have no idea where is the cache. /var/cache/dnf subdirectories will
> not show any .rpm.
>
> Where can I find my src.rpm ?

Sorry for this noise.
$ ls
.....
R-3.2.1-2.fc22.src.rpm

Was in my current directory! Any way to tell in dnf.conf a specific
path for cache ?


From what I saw, the way the dnf download plugin works is that it downloads the package in /var/cache/dnf/<REPO_ID>*/packages then when the download finishes successfully the file is copied to the directory specified by --destdir; if --destdir isn't used in the command then the the file is downloaded to the current working dir.

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Ahmad Samir