Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (149 mails)

[josef reidinger <jreidinger@xxxxxxx>]

Michael Andres napsal(a):
> On Mon, Sep 01, Michael Matz wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Jan-Simon M?ler 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
>
> Without a new ZYPP_CONF:
>
> Besides /etc/zypp/repos.d, the repomanager may also want to download 
> metadata, create solv files, etc... You can redirect the repomanager 
> to use a different root directory:
>
>         rootdir = zypp.Pathname("/tmp/a")
>         repoManagerOptions = zypp.RepoManagerOptions( rootdir )
>         mymanager = zypp.RepoManager( repoManagerOptions )

Yes, in this way it uses zypper with root prefix (which can be run as 
user), you can inspire by its code.
JR
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