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.

set_or_append_opt_value(name, value_string, priority=PRIO_RUNTIME).: For standard options, sets the value of the option if the priority is equal to or higher than the current priority. For “append” options, appends the values parsed from value_string to the current list of values. If the first parsed element of the list of values is empty and the priority is equal to or higher than the current priority, the current list is replaced with the new values. If the priority is higher than the current priority, the current priority is increased to the priority. Raises dnf.exceptions.ConfigError if the option with the given name does not exist or value_string contains an invalid value or not allowed value.

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.