Install of packages (RPM's Pre downloaded) using "dnf install *.rpm" delets the files from disk

Issue

• When installing RPMs downloaded locally, the files are removed during the process:

[root@GT-RHEL8 rhel]# pwd
/tmp/rhel
[root@GT-RHEL8 rhel]# dnf install httpd --downloadonly --downloaddir=/tmp/rhel/
[root@GT-RHEL8 rhel]# ls -l
total 1804
-rw-------. 1 root root 1475135 Mar 30 14:26 httpd-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64.rpm
-rw-------. 1 root root   41091 Mar 30 14:26 httpd-filesystem-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.noarch.rpm
-rw-------. 1 root root  109931 Mar 30 14:26 httpd-tools-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64.rpm
-rw-------. 1 root root  158047 Mar 30 14:26 mod_http2-1.15.7-3.module+el8.4.0+8625+d397f3da.x86_64.rpm
-rw-------. 1 root root   29900 Mar 30 14:26 redhat-logos-httpd-84.5-1.el8.noarch.rpm
[root@GT-RHEL8 rhel]# dnf install httpd-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64.rpm  httpd-filesystem-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.noarch.rpm httpd-tools-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64.rpm  mod_http2-1.15.7-3.module+el8.4.0+8625+d397f3da.x86_64.rpm redhat-logos-httpd-84.5-1.el8.noarch.rpm
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:07:01 ago on Wed 30 Mar 2022 02:22:30 PM EDT.
Dependencies resolved.
===================================================================================================================
 Package                  Architecture Version                                            Repository          Size
===================================================================================================================
Installing:
 httpd                    x86_64       2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3          @commandline       1.4 M
 httpd-filesystem         noarch       2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3          @commandline        40 k
 httpd-tools              x86_64       2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3          @commandline       107 k
 mod_http2                x86_64       1.15.7-3.module+el8.4.0+8625+d397f3da              @commandline       154 k
 redhat-logos-httpd       noarch       84.5-1.el8                                         @commandline        29 k
Enabling module streams:
 httpd                                 2.4

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================================
Install  5 Packages

Total size: 1.7 M
Installed size: 4.9 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                                                           1/1
  Installing       : redhat-logos-httpd-84.5-1.el8.noarch                                                      1/5
  Installing       : httpd-tools-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64                              2/5
  Running scriptlet: httpd-filesystem-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.noarch                         3/5
  Installing       : httpd-filesystem-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.noarch                         3/5
  Installing       : mod_http2-1.15.7-3.module+el8.4.0+8625+d397f3da.x86_64                                    4/5
  Installing       : httpd-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64                                    5/5
  Running scriptlet: httpd-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64                                    5/5
  Verifying        : httpd-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64                                    1/5
  Verifying        : httpd-filesystem-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.noarch                         2/5
  Verifying        : httpd-tools-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64                              3/5
  Verifying        : mod_http2-1.15.7-3.module+el8.4.0+8625+d397f3da.x86_64                                    4/5
  Verifying        : redhat-logos-httpd-84.5-1.el8.noarch                                                      5/5
Installed products updated.

Installed:
  httpd-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64
  httpd-filesystem-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.noarch
  httpd-tools-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64
  mod_http2-1.15.7-3.module+el8.4.0+8625+d397f3da.x86_64
  redhat-logos-httpd-84.5-1.el8.noarch

Complete!
[root@GT-RHEL8 rhel]# ls -l
total 0
[root@GT-RHEL8 rhel]#


--->
---> Here's the last contents of the /var/log/dnf.log - it shows the rpm files being removed!  Why?
--->

[root@GT-RHEL8 rhel]# tail /var/log/dnf.log
2022-03-30T14:29:42-0400 INFO Running transaction
2022-03-30T14:29:43-0400 DDEBUG RPM transaction start.
2022-03-30T14:30:21-0400 DDEBUG RPM transaction over.
2022-03-30T14:30:21-0400 DDEBUG timer: verify transaction: 257 ms
2022-03-30T14:30:21-0400 DDEBUG timer: transaction: 38266 ms
2022-03-30T14:30:21-0400 DEBUG Completion plugin: Generating completion cache...
2022-03-30T14:30:21-0400 INFO Installed products updated.
2022-03-30T14:30:22-0400 DEBUG Installed: httpd-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64
2022-03-30T14:30:22-0400 DEBUG Installed: httpd-filesystem-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.noarch
2022-03-30T14:30:22-0400 DEBUG Installed: httpd-tools-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64
2022-03-30T14:30:22-0400 DEBUG Installed: mod_http2-1.15.7-3.module+el8.4.0+8625+d397f3da.x86_64
2022-03-30T14:30:22-0400 DEBUG Installed: redhat-logos-httpd-84.5-1.el8.noarch
2022-03-30T14:30:22-0400 INFO Complete!
2022-03-30T14:30:22-0400 DDEBUG Cleaning up.
2022-03-30T14:30:22-0400 DDEBUG /tmp/rhel/redhat-logos-httpd-84.5-1.el8.noarch.rpm removed
2022-03-30T14:30:22-0400 DDEBUG /tmp/rhel/mod_http2-1.15.7-3.module+el8.4.0+8625+d397f3da.x86_64.rpm removed
2022-03-30T14:30:22-0400 DDEBUG /tmp/rhel/httpd-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64.rpm removed
2022-03-30T14:30:22-0400 DDEBUG /tmp/rhel/httpd-tools-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.x86_64.rpm removed
2022-03-30T14:30:22-0400 DDEBUG /tmp/rhel/httpd-filesystem-2.4.37-43.module+el8.5.0+14530+6f259f31.3.noarch.rpm removed
---------------