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Make sure that we do not use the internal Count Me logic in DNF in rpm-ostree as we have our own external implementation that is aware of the different behavior regarding repo handling. See also the discussions in: - https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/issues/1174 - https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/issues/1068 - https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/pull/2671 Also remove the corresponding note in the docs which not needed anymore.
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# DNF Count Me support
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Classic DNF based operating systems can use the [DNF Count Me feature][countme]
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to anonymously report how long a system has been running without impacting the
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user privacy. This is implemented as an additional `countme` variable added to
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requests made to fetch RPM repository metadata. On those systems, this value is
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added randomly to requests made automatically via the `dnf-makecache.timer` or
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via explicit calls to `dnf update` or `dnf install`.
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However, this does not work for `rpm-ostree` based systems as in the default
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case (no package overlayed on top of the base commit), `rpm-ostree` will not
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fetch any RPM repository metadata at all.
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Thus `rpm-ostree` includes a distinct timer (`rpm-ostree-countme.timer`),
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triggered weekly, that implement the DNF Count Me functionality in a
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standalone way.
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## Disabling DNF Count Me on a system
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To disable this feature, you need to stop the `rpm-ostree-countme.timer` and
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mask the corresponding unit as a precaution:
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```
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$ systemctl mask --now rpm-ostree-countme.timer
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```
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[countme]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DNF_Better_Counting
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