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Bug 1938338 - [rfe] Option to change repository priority from dnf
Summary: [rfe] Option to change repository priority from dnf
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: 34
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: rpm-software-management
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: dnf-community
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Reported: 2021-03-12 20:05 UTC by Thiago Sueto
Modified: 2021-03-15 13:24 UTC (History)
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Description Thiago Sueto 2021-03-12 20:05:49 UTC 
The current method of changing the priority of repositories is to add an option in dnf.conf.

It would be convenient for dnf to have built-in priority management functionality, similar to what's done in zypper with

zypper modifyrepo --priority <number> <repo>

Setting priorities is particularly useful to define default behavior for updates so there's generally no need for --enablerepo and --disablerepo.
Comment 1 amatej 2021-03-15 13:24:25 UTC 
For a temporary override you can use --setopt so for example: dnf install htop --setopt=rawhide.priority=40 (sets priority 40 for the rawhide repository)

But this looks more like you want a permanent modification to the config file, we have a config-manager plugin for that.
It is not the most convenient but you can do: dnf config-manager --setopt=rawhide.priority=40 --save (sets priority 40 for the rawhide repository in the repo file)

Does that work for you?
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