F45 moves repository configuration to /usr: paths, GPG and overrides

Fedora 45 moves packaged repository configuration from /etc/yum.repos.d to /usr/share/dnf5/repos.d, and the repository GPG keys from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg to /usr/share/pki/rpm-gpg (official change proposal RelocateRpmRepoConfigsToUsr).

This is not “Fedora no longer uses /etc” — only the part owned by packages moved. Every section below carries real output from F45.

What it looks like after the move

ls /usr/share/dnf5/repos.d/
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
ls /usr/share/pki/rpm-gpg/ | head -3

fedora-cisco-openh264.repo
fedora.repo
fedora-updates.repo
fedora-updates-testing.repo
(/etc/yum.repos.d/ is empty)
RPM-GPG-KEY-45-fedora
RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-10-i386
RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-10-ppc

/etc/yum.repos.d/ is an empty directory, not a missing one — the easiest thing to misread after an upgrade.

Three boundaries

Location	Owned by	Hand-edit?	On upgrade
/usr/share/dnf5/repos.d/*.repo	the fedora-repos package	no	overwritten
/etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo	you	yes	kept
/etc/dnf/repos.override.d/*.repo	config-manager	no (the header says so)	kept

Confirm ownership:

rpm -qf /usr/share/dnf5/repos.d/fedora.repo

fedora-repos-45-0.6.noarch

If rpm -qf names a package, do not edit that file by hand.

Enabling or disabling a packaged repository

To turn off a packaged repository such as updates-testing, do not edit the file under /usr:

sudo dnf config-manager setopt updates-testing.enabled=0

It writes this file:

sudo cat /etc/dnf/repos.override.d/99-config_manager.repo

# Generated by libdnf5.
# Do not modify this file manually, use dnf5 config-manager instead.
[updates-testing]
enabled=0

Check it took effect:

sudo dnf repolist | grep -c updates-testing     # 0

Note

The filename is 99-config_manager.repo (hyphen). Plenty of material online writes it with an underscore, 99_config_manager.repo, and you will not find the file that way.

One-shot override: --setopt

For a single command, nothing is written to disk:

sudo dnf repolist --setopt updates-testing.enabled=1 | grep -c updates-testing   # 1

Remember the difference in one line: --setopt is a runtime switch, config-manager setopt persists.

Custom and third-party repositories

Repositories you add yourself still go in /etc/yum.repos.d/. Measured on F45: dropping a test .repo into that directory is picked up by dnf as usual — so “F45 no longer uses /etc” is wrong.

config-manager addrepo writes there too:

sudo dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://example.com/example.repo
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/

How it relates to upgrades and deletion

• /etc/yum.repos.d/ looks empty after an upgrade: the repositories did not disappear, the packaged ones moved. Confirm with dnf repolist.
• Deletion: rm /etc/yum.repos.d/x.repo only works for custom repositories; deleting files under /usr neither takes effect nor survives the next upgrade.
• Hard-coded paths in scripts: backup scripts or configuration-management templates that assume /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo break on F45.

Troubleshooting order

When a repository seems to have vanished, check in this order:

1. dnf repolist — is it in the list;
2. ls /usr/share/dnf5/repos.d — is the packaged file there;
3. ls /etc/dnf/repos.override.d/ — did an override disable it;
4. dnf repoinfo <id> — the effective enabled and gpgcheck.

Caution

Do not start by deleting files under /etc/yum.repos.d/ — on F45 that is usually empty, so you delete nothing and end up looking for the problem elsewhere.

Related pages

• COPR third-party repositories — still written into /etc/yum.repos.d
• Error lookup — repository and signature messages
• Fedora 45: changes, download and upgrade — the six changes at a glance
• Fedora repositories and dnf5 — full repository operations
• Signature enforcement — what happens when gpgcheck fails
• Upgrading to Fedora 45 — post-upgrade checks
• Official: F45 Change Proposal: RelocateRpmRepoConfigsToUsr