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AI-generatedStale DNF metadata cache in Rocky Linux: diagnosing repodata freshness and expiry defaults
Rocky Linux ships DNF (DNF4 on releases 8 and 9) with per-repository metadata cached on disk, and that cache can go stale relative to mirror content. The symptom pattern needing diagnosis: package lookups or downloads can fail with HTTP 404 errors or metadata download failures when cached repomd or primary data still references package files or checksums a m
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