Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (149 mails)

[Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Jan-Simon Möller wrote:

> I'm using libzypp / libzypp-bindings-python to query packages available in an 
> http-rpmmd-repo.
>
> I started with 
>
>  initializeTarget(zypp.Pathname("/tmp/a"))
>
> created my repoinfo, but then 
>
>  mymanager.addRepository(myrepoinfo)
>
> fails because it wants to write to /etc/zypp.
> How can I change this behaviour ? 
> AFAIK /etc/zypp is stored in configPath. But found no "setConfigPath".
> Did I miss something? Or is this not possible with libzypp ?

Create a new zypp.conf (replace at least configdir with a user-writable 
dir).  Point the zypp apps to your own zypp.conf with the ZYPP_CONF 
environment variable:

% ZYPP_CONF=/tmp/zypp.conf build-dir/myapp


Ciao,
Michael.