Configuration

Configurable settings of the dnf.Base object are stored into a dnf.conf.Conf instance. The various options are described here.

class dnf.conf.Conf

This object has attributes corresponding to all configuration options from both "[main] Options" and "Options for both [main] and Repo" sections. For example setting a proxy to access all repositories:

import dnf

base = dnf.Base()
conf = base.conf
conf.proxy = "http://the.proxy.url:3128"
conf.proxy_username = "username"
conf.proxy_password = "secret"
base.read_all_repos()
base.fill_sack()

get_reposdir

Returns the value of the first valid reposdir or if unavailable the value of created reposdir (string)

substitutions

An instance of dnf.conf.substitutions.Substitutions class. A mapping of substitutions used in repositories' remote URL configuration. The commonly used ones are:

key	meaning	default
arch	architecture of the machine	autodetected
basearch	the architecture family of the current "arch"	autodetected
releasever	release name of the system distribution	None

dnf.rpm.detect_releasever() can be used to detect the releasever value.

Following example shows recommended method how to override autodetected architectures:

import dnf
import hawkey

arch = hawkey.detect_arch()
base = dnf.Base()
base.conf.substitutions['arch'] = arch
base.conf.substitutions['basearch'] = dnf.rpm.basearch(arch)
base.fill_sack()
...

exclude_pkgs(pkgs)

Exclude all packages in the pkgs list from all operations.

prepend_installroot(option)

Prefix config option named option with installroot.

read(filename=None)

Read configuration options from the main section in filename. Option values not present there are left at their current values. If filename is None, config_file_path is used. Conversely, the configuration path used to load the configuration file that was used is stored into config_file_path before the function returns.

dump()

Print configuration values, including inherited values.

write_raw_configfile(filename, section_id, substitutions, modify)

Update or create config file. Where filename represents name of config file (.conf or .repo); section_id represents id of modified section (e.g. main, fedora, updates); substitutions represents an instance of base.conf.substitutions; modify represents dict of modified options.

class dnf.conf.substitutions.Substitutions

update_from_etc(installroot, varsdir=('/etc/yum/vars/', '/etc/dnf/vars/'))

Read user-defined variables values from variable directories. See variable files in Configuration reference.