[Yum-devel] Yum API: logging level, configuration, non-root questions

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 08:45:43PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 17:19 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > I'm using the snippet of code below in order to resolve dependencies
> > from a list of packages, and it works fine.
> > 
> > However there are some problems I can't work out how to fix:
> > 
> > (1) How do I emulate the '--quiet' command line option, ie. make it so
> > that the yum libraries don't send lots of messages to stdout (which
> > conflicts with the list that I want to write to stdout).
> 
> 
> you probably want to use preconf so:
> 
> yb = yum.YumBase()
> yb.preconf.debuglevel=0
> yb.preconf.errorlevel=0
> 
> 
> 
> > (2) When I run this as non-root, it works, *unless* the yum repo is
> > not up to date.  If the yum repo is not up to date then it fails
> > because it tries to download and overwrite package lists in a
> > root-owned directory.  Now obviously other tools eg. yumdownloader
> > work fine as non-root.  How can I fix that?
> 
> yb.setCacheDir() 
> 
> will do all you want
> 
> > 
> > (3) How can I make it use a non-default location for the yum
> > configuration (instead of /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.repos.d/*)?
> > Alternately emulate --disablerepo/--enablerepo on the command line?
> 
> Do you want a different set of config files or a different set of repos
> entirely?
> 
> like above
> yb.preconf.fn = '/path/to/my/conf/file'
> 
> and then specifiy the .repos.d path in the conf file you made.

Excellent, that fixes all the problems.  Thanks for the help.

Rich.

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