DNF5.CONF-DEPRECATED(5)

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version 5.4.6.0 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

💅 dnf5.conf-deprecated — the manual page, bestie edition

okay so this is dnf5.conf-deprecated(5) from the dnf5 manual, and it's literally the "hey girl, this stuff is on its way out" chapter ✨

🫶 NAME

dnf5.conf-deprecated — config options that are deprecated in DNF5 💀

🌸 DESCRIPTION

so DNF5 has a handful of options that are, and I say this with love, deprecated. This section documents them — the ones that are deprecated and will be removed in the future. Clock's ticking, bestie ⏰

If you find any issue, please, open a ticket at <https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5/issues> — the maintainers are sweethearts, fr fr 🫶

⚠️ Warning: all the config options documented here are deprecated. Every single one. No cap. 💀

💖 The Options (read with care, they're leaving)

  • strict boolean — if you disable it, then all unavailable packages, or packages with broken dependencies, that you hand to a DNF5 command get skipped without raising the error that would've made the whole operation fail. Right now it only works for the install command, that's it, that's the whole range 🎀
    • Default: True.
  • deltarpm boolean — if you enable it, DNF5 saves bandwidth by downloading much smaller delta RPM files and rebuilding them into RPMs locally. Gorgeous in theory. BUT it's quite CPU and I/O intensive, so like… pick your struggle 😭
    • Default: False.
  • deltarpm_percentage integer — when the relative size of delta vs pkg is larger than this number, the delta just isn't used. (Deltas must be at least 25% smaller than the pkg, periodt.) Use 0 to turn off delta rpm processing entirely. And heads up: local repositories (with file:// baseurl) have delta rpms turned off by default 👀
    • Default: 75
  • retries integer — sets the number of total retries for downloading packages. The number is cumulative, so e.g. for retries=10, DNF5 will fail after any package download fails for the eleventh time. (eleven. not ten. eleven. the math is mathing, trust 💅)
    • Setting this to 0 makes DNF5 try forever 🌀
    • Default: 10.

👑 Author

See AUTHORS.md in the dnf5 source distribution — the whole squad is credited there 🫶

Contributors to the dnf5 project. 💜

and that's the page!! this lil beauty shipped with the dnf5 source, dated Sep 24, 2026, brought to you by the contributors to the dnf5 project. stay safe out there and stop using deprecated options, i'm begging 🥺💖 periodt ✨

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