Add support for using comps groups for dnf download
#1129
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Priority: LOW
RFE
Request For Enhancement (as opposed to a bug)
Triaged
Someone on the DNF 5 team has read the issue and determined the next steps to take
Currently,
dnf download
does not support comps groups as arguments like other commands do. Extending it to support comps groups would make it much easier to create filtered mirrors by downloading subsets of the repository content.Please add support for this.
This would also mean that there should be a
dnf group download
command too.While there are some workarounds for this by using
dnf install @'<group-name>' --downloadonly --installroot <empty_dir> --destdir <custom_dir>
, the problem with it is that you have to be root to run this, which is not particularly great if you're trying to mirror as a non-root user.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: