dnf automatic updates configured with deprecated config location: /etc/dnf/dnf5-plugins/automatic.conf

[valankar]

Explain what happens

1. Enable software updates with default settings and 'All updates'
2. Config file is created in /etc/dnf/dnf5-plugins/automatic.conf
3. Test running with: /usr/bin/dnf5 automatic --timer (the command shown as ExecStart from systemctl cat dnf5-automatic.service)
4. Output is: Warning: Configuration file location "/etc/dnf/dnf5-plugins/automatic.conf" for dnf automatic is deprecated. See dnf5-automatic(8) for details.

The man page states:

The operation of the tool is controlled by configuration files. Default values are set from /usr/share/dnf5/dnf5-plugins/automatic.conf config file. Host-specific overrides from /etc/dnf/automatic.conf are then applied.

Version of Cockpit

341

Where is the problem in Cockpit?

Software updates

Server operating system

Fedora

Server operating system version

42

What browsers are you using?

Edge

System log

[jelly]

Thanks for the bug report, Fedora 42 has dnf5 while we still need to support dnf 4 for RHEL 10 and below:

In our packagekit code we have support for dnf4 and 5 so setting a new location for dnf5 wouldn't be too hard. The issue is however that dnf4 uses /etc/dnf/automatic.conf so this will turn in a mess when upgrading.

[martinpitt]

Thanks! I checked a RHEL 9.7 /etc/dnf/automatic.conf (dnf 4) against current Fedora 42's dnf5-automatic(8) manpage and also our code which reads/modifies the settings. They indeed were made compatible, so it looks like we can use the canonical location now.

[RoepLuke]

nice that this is being fixed as dnf automatic not only warns of the deprecation but also ignores the deprecated configuration file "silently" leading to the default / distro-default behavior instead.