With every command of dnf5 it loads and updates repositories and displays the text as follows:
$ dnf search feh
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Matched fields: name (exact)
feh.x86_64: Fast command line image viewer using Imlib2
How can I stop this extra text from displaying and the repositories should be updated only once daily.
Use dnf -q search blah
Note the -q option doesn’t work for everything there is a bug filed, Option -q (--quiet) does not work · Issue #570 · rpm-software-management/dnf5 · GitHub
The dnf commands acessing repo metadata will check with every such command if metadata refresh is needed, according to the metadata_expire variable in the specific repo’s config files (located in /etc/yum.repos.d/). Some have a 6h refresh interval, others more.
The second line from your output shows that a check was made whether repositories needed to be updated, and the third line shows that such an update didn’t take place, as otherwise the progress and details of such repo metadata download would be presented.
In the followinw, if I change the value of metadata_expire for fedora-updates.repo and fedora-updates-testing.repo to 7d, will I still get the message?
$ grep 'metadata_expire' *.repo
fedora-cisco-openh264.repo:metadata_expire=14d
fedora-cisco-openh264.repo:metadata_expire=14d
fedora-cisco-openh264.repo:metadata_expire=14d
fedora-updates-testing.repo:metadata_expire=6h
fedora-updates-testing.repo:metadata_expire=6h
fedora-updates-testing.repo:metadata_expire=6h
fedora-updates.repo:metadata_expire=6h
fedora-updates.repo:metadata_expire=6h
fedora-updates.repo:metadata_expire=6h
fedora.repo:metadata_expire=7d
fedora.repo:metadata_expire=7d
fedora.repo:metadata_expire=7d
rpmfusion-free.repo:metadata_expire=14d
rpmfusion-free.repo:metadata_expire=7d
rpmfusion-free.repo:metadata_expire=7d
rpmfusion-nonfree.repo:metadata_expire=14d
rpmfusion-nonfree.repo:metadata_expire=7d
rpmfusion-nonfree.repo:metadata_expire=7d
Yes you would.
The only difference will be that it will show the repo list being updated or not, based on the previous metadata refresh:
$ dnf search feh --refresh # Here forcing a refresh to demo repo metadata update
Updating and loading repositories:
Fedora 41 - aarch64 - Updates 100% | 38.6 KiB/s | 19.1 KiB | 00m00s
RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Free - Updates 100% | 20.1 KiB/s | 7.4 KiB | 00m00s
RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree - Updates 100% | 19.0 KiB/s | 7.4 KiB | 00m00s
Fedora 41 - aarch64 100% | 182.2 KiB/s | 21.0 KiB | 00m00s
RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Free 100% | 21.3 KiB/s | 7.9 KiB | 00m00s
Fedora 41 openh264 (From Cisco) - aarch64 100% | 7.5 KiB/s | 990.0 B | 00m00s
RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree 100% | 23.1 KiB/s | 8.0 KiB | 00m00s
Fedora 41 - aarch64 - Updates 100% | 2.7 MiB/s | 1.7 MiB | 00m01s
RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Free - Updates 100% | 60.9 KiB/s | 41.7 KiB | 00m01s
RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree - Updates 100% | 20.8 KiB/s | 24.2 KiB | 00m01s
Fedora 41 - aarch64 100% | 900.4 KiB/s | 470.9 KiB | 00m01s
Repositories loaded.
Matched fields: name (exact)
feh.aarch64: Fast command line image viewer using Imlib2
Matched fields: name
golang-github-google-safehtml-devel.noarch: Safe HTML for Go
perl-IPC-Run-SafeHandles.noarch: Use IPC::Run and IPC::Run3 safely
sdorfehs.aarch64: A tiling window manager
$ dnf search feh # When repo metadata is up to date
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Matched fields: name (exact)
feh.aarch64: Fast command line image viewer using Imlib2
Matched fields: name
golang-github-google-safehtml-devel.noarch: Safe HTML for Go
perl-IPC-Run-SafeHandles.noarch: Use IPC::Run and IPC::Run3 safely
sdorfehs.aarch64: A tiling window manager