Default RPM repo file sets expiry time too low

[cyqsimon]

This is an issue I posted over Gitter - so I'll simply paste it over:

I think the default RPM .repo file's metadata expiry is set too short. Currently it's 5 minutes which is entirely unnecessary. For reference the default value for dnf is 48 hours.
It becomes annoying during maintenance when I'm installing, uninstalling, querying, searching, updating, etc. packages with dnf. Basically any dnf command would trigger a metadata refresh for crowdsec. And as anyone who uses RHEL can tell you, updating repo metadata is often irritatingly slow.
It's not a difficult fix. I simply commented out metadata_expire=300 in /etc/yum.repos.d/crowdsec_crowdsec.repo and it reverts to the default 48h. But a more sensible default is always better IMO.

tl;dr

Make the default something more sensible, like 12h, or just remove the line to use the default 48h.

[LaurenceJJones]

@sabban

Do we have access to this via our settings in packagecloud?

[sabban]

I believe we don't.

[cyqsimon]

Was this fixed? Or is this a "won't fix"?

[LaurenceJJones]

Was this fixed? Or is this a "won't fix"?

Sorry it should of been placed under "wont fix" due to RPM time being out of our control within the installation script. If in the future we might have an external script for ourselves due to any/any requirements then we will have more control