Configuration Files and Repositories
The main configuration files reside in /etc/tdnf/tdnf.conf. The configuration file appears as follows:
cat /etc/tdnf/tdnf.conf
[main]
gpgcheck=1
installonly_limit=3
clean_requirements_on_remove=true
repodir=/etc/yum.repos.d
cachedir=/var/cache/tdnf
The cache files for data and metadata reside in /var/cache/tdnf.
The following repositories appear in /etc/yum.repos.d/ with .repo
file extensions:
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
photon-extras.repo
photon-iso.repo
photon-updates.repo
photon.repo
You can list the the repositories by using the tdnf repolist
command. Tdnf filters the results with enabled
, disabled
, and all
. Running the command without specifying an argument returns the enabled repositories:
tdnf repolist
repo id repo name status
photon-updates VMware Photon Linux 2.0(x86_64)Updates enabled
photon-extras VMware Photon Extras 2.0(x86_64) enabled
photon VMware Photon Linux 2.0(x86_64) enabled
The photon-iso.repo
, however, does not appear in the list of repositories because it is unavailable on the virtual machine from which these examples are taken. The photon-iso.repo
is the default repository and it points to /media/cdrom. The photon-iso.repo
appears as follows:
cat /etc/yum.repos.d/photon-iso.repo
[photon-iso]
name=VMWare Photon Linux 2.0(x86_64)
baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom/RPMS
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/VMWARE-RPM-GPG-KEY
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
skip_if_unavailable=True
The local cache is populated with data from the repository:
ls -l /var/cache/tdnf/photon
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 18 22:52 repodata
d-wxr----t 3 root root 4096 May 3 22:51 rpms
You can clear the cache to help troubleshoot a problem, but doing so might slow the performance of tdnf
until the cache becomes repopulated with data. To clear the cache, use the following command:
tdnf clean all
Cleaning repos: photon photon-extras photon-updates lightwave
Cleaning up everything
The command purges the repository data from the cache:
ls -l /var/cache/tdnf/photon
total 4
d-wxr----t 3 root root 4096 May 3 22:51 rpms