Reposync Command

Synopsis

dnf5 [GLOBAL OPTIONS] reposync [OPTIONS]

Description

The reposync command creates local copies of remote repositories. It avoids re-downloading packages that are already present in the local directory.

By default, reposync synchronizes all enabled repositories. However, you can customize the set of repositories to be synchronized using standard DNF5 options such as --repo, --enable-repo, or --disable-repo.

Options

--arch=<architecture>, -a <architecture>

Download only packages for the specified architecture. This option can be specified multiple times. The default behavior is to download packages for all architectures.

--delete

Remove local packages that are no longer present in the remote repository.

--destdir=<path>

Specifies the root path where downloaded repositories are stored, relative to the current working directory. Defaults to the current working directory. Each downloaded repository will have a subdirectory named after its ID within this path.

--download-metadata

Download all repository metadata. The downloaded copy is instantly usable as a repository without the need to run createrepo_c. When used with --newest-only, only the latest package versions are downloaded. However, the metadata will still reference also older packages. To avoid issues caused by missing RPM files, consider updating the metadata using createrepo_c --update. Otherwise, DNF will encounter errors when attempting to install older packages.

--gpgcheck, -g

Remove packages that fail OpenPGP signature verification after downloading. The command exits with a code of 1 if at least one package is removed.

Note: For repositories configured with gpgcheck=0, OpenPGP signatures are not checked, even when this option is used.

--metadata-path=<path>

Specifies the root path where downloaded metadata files are stored. If not specified, it defaults to the value of --destdir.

--newest-only, -n

Download only the latest package versions from each repository.

--norepopath

Prevents the repository id from being added to the download path. This option can only be used when syncing a single repository. (The default behavior adds the repository id to the path.)

--remote-time

Attempts to set the timestamps of local downloaded files to match those on the remote side.

--safe-write-path=<path>

Defines the filesystem path prefix where reposync is allowed to write files. If not specified, it defaults to the repository’s download path. This option is useful for repositories that use relative locations of packages leading outside of the repository directory (e.g., ../packages_store/foo.rpm).

Caution: Any file under the safe-write-path can be overwritten. This option can only be used when syncing a single repository.

--srpm

Downloads source packages. Equivalent to using --arch=src.

--urls, -u

Prints the URLs of the files that would be downloaded without actually downloading them.

Examples

dnf reposync --repoid=the_repo

Synchronize all packages from the repository with id the_repo. The synchronized copy is saved in the_repo subdirectory of the current working directory.

dnf reposync --destdir=/my/repos/path --repoid=the_repo

Synchronize all packages from the repository with id the_repo. In this case files are saved in /my/repos/path/the_repo directory.

dnf reposync --repoid=the_repo --download-metadata

Synchronize all packages and metadata from the_repo repository.

Repository synchronized with --download-metadata option can be directly used with DNF for example by using --repofrompath option:

dnf --repofrompath=syncedrepo,the_repo --repoid=syncedrepo list --available