Description of problem:
The docs say:

cachedir

    Path to a directory used by various DNF subsystems for storing cache data. Has a reasonable root-writable default depending on the distribution. It is up to the client to set this to a location where files and directories can be created under the running user. The directory can be safely deleted after the dnf.Base object is destroyed

http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/api_conf.html#dnf.conf.Conf.cachedir

However, the doesn't seem to be any reasonable default value set:

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import dnf

import dnf.repo

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base = dnf.Base()

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repos = base.repos

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repo = dnf.repo.Repo('local repo',None)

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repo.baseurl='file:///home/kparal/tmp/repo'

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print repo

[None]
ip_resolve: None
proxy_password: None
includepkgs: []
bandwidth: 0
cost: 1000
http_caching: 'all'
exclude: []
keepalive: True
repo_gpgcheck: False
sslverify: True
failovermethod: 'roundrobin'
gpgkey: []
fastestmirror: False
mirrorlist: None
gpgcheck: False
sslcacert: None
username: None
metadata_expire: 172800
sslclientcert: None
baseurl: ['file:///home/kparal/tmp/repo']
gpgcakey: []
proxy: None
throttle: 0
password: None
retries: 10
mediaid: None
name: None
sslclientkey: None
metalink: None
enabled: True
skip_if_unavailable: True
proxy_username: None
timeout: 30.0
enablegroups: True

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repos.add(repo)

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print base.repos

{'local repo': <Repo local repo>}

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base.fill_sack(load_system_repo=False)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-9-7f6a05b3c53f> in <module>()
----> 1 base.fill_sack(load_system_repo=False)

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/base.pyc in fill_sack(self, load_system_repo, load_available_repos)
    210             if load_available_repos:
    211                 for r in self.repos.iter_enabled():
--> 212                     self._add_repo_to_sack(r.id)
    213         conf = self.conf
    214         self._sack.configure(conf.installonlypkgs, conf.installonly_limit)

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/base.pyc in _add_repo_to_sack(self, name)
    118         repo = self.repos[name]
    119         try:
--> 120             repo.load()
    121         except dnf.exceptions.RepoError as e:
    122             if repo.skip_if_unavailable is False:

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/repo.pyc in load(self)
    434 
    435         """
--> 436         if self.metadata or self._try_cache():
    437             if self.sync_strategy == SYNC_ONLY_CACHE or not self.metadata.expired:
    438                 logger.debug('repo: using cache for: %s' % self.id)

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/repo.pyc in _try_cache(self)
    296         """
    297         assert(self.metadata is None)
--> 298         handle = self._handle_new_local(self.cachedir)
    299         try:
    300             self.metadata = self._handle_load(handle)

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/repo.pyc in cachedir(self)
    344     @property
    345     def cachedir(self):
--> 346         return os.path.join(self.basecachedir, self.id)
    347 
    348     _REPOCONF_ATTRS = set(dir(dnf.yum.config.RepoConf))

/usr/lib64/python2.7/posixpath.pyc in join(a, *p)
     75         if b.startswith('/'):
     76             path = b
---> 77         elif path == '' or path.endswith('/'):
     78             path +=  b
     79         else:

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'endswith'


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-0.4.12-1.fc20.noarch

How reproducible:
always