Pavel Raiskup

Actually, `createrepo_c` probably reads the contents ... at least to generate the filelists.xml. So Neal is right in that. What would though speedup the **Copr** use-case **a lot** would be...

Thank you for the PR! The authors wanted to use `epel-X` on the Enterprise Linux family of distributions, and I believe this is what users are used to having -...

Just for the record, `dnf4 copr enable` downloads repofiles from copr frontend, something like: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/@mock/mock/repo/fedora-39/dnf.repo?arch=x86_64 With this approach, `dnf copr` has to a decision in advance, before the request is...

Just two more interesting queries, number of EL-based chroots (or "projects") currently in Fedora Copr (excluding the temporary projects): ``` coprdb=# select mock_chroot.id, mock_chroot.os_release, mock_chroot.os_version, count(*) as c from copr_chroot...

We (the [mock](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock) utility upstream) are interested in having something like this natively supported by DNF. For the time being, we'll generate a custom lockfiles per [this schema](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/blob/main/mock/docs/buildroot-lock-schema-1.0.0.json) for "hermetic...

For Mock, the file format is mostly internal, not a "standard" that we or anyone else would have to conform to. No format promises, no intentions to make this "an...

A related issue, and related comment: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm-sequoia/issues/50#issuecomment-1682313430 (it did not ring RPM bells those days).

> I guess the problem is that DNF does not periodically redownload a key to refresh it Yes, but not just this... even if you re-download the updated key, it...

> I believe that it simply pertains repositories which have signature verification disabled. (Either specifically in the repository configuration, or globally for all of them.) Otherwise, RPM would reject installing...

Thank you for the info! Well, I think propagating the info to stderr is still worth it (for the wrapping tools like Mock, it could be a bit hard to...