Some workflows use yumdownloader or dnf download, or dnf <command> --downloadonly. Some of those use cases then use rpm2cpio or rpm2archive to work with the payload directly. Those tools do not work with transcoded packages yet, so take a hint from the command used to decide whether to use CoW.
Some workflows use
yumdownloader
ordnf download
, ordnf <command> --downloadonly
. Some of those use cases then userpm2cpio
orrpm2archive
to work with the payload directly. Those tools do not work with transcoded packages yet, so take a hint from the command used to decide whether to use CoW.