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Bug 1576516 - [api] Need a way to tell DNF to use a different path for database/persistent data
Summary: [api] Need a way to tell DNF to use a different path for database/persistent ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: rpm-software-management
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: dnf-community
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-09 16:12 UTC by Neal Gompa
Modified: 2020-02-14 07:31 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-11-27 23:08:00 UTC
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Description Neal Gompa 2018-05-09 16:12:25 UTC 
Description of problem:

I'm working on trying to port Snapcraft[1] to support building snaps on a Fedora base, which involves interacting with DNF to install packages and such. However, because snaps are read-only images, I can't mutate the rpmdb and dnfdb stuff that is in the base snap.

What I want to do instead is copy that out to a writable location and actually tell DNF to use that instead so that I can actually avoid doing weird things with libsolv.

[1]: https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.7.5-12.fc28

Additional info:
This is related to work enabling building Fedora content as snaps.

Cf. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/server@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/VQ3FK7ZJCQV2YV2O4PHADRUCKNFNVWPH/
Comment 1 Jan Kurik 2018-08-14 10:03:23 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle.
Changing version to '29'.
Comment 2 Daniel Mach 2019-07-25 07:45:50 UTC 
You can change DNF's persistdir easily.
But RPMDB location is fixed.

Panu,
what would you recommend if we want a configurable RPMDB location?
I was thinking about RPM supporting an env variable for that, for example: RPM_RPMDB_PATH=...
Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2019-07-29 11:56:30 UTC 
Rpm's database path has always been configurable, just set %_dbpath macro to the desired path prior to explicitly or implicitly opening the db.
Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 19:00:29 UTC 
This message is a reminder that Fedora 29 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 29 on 2019-11-26.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
Fedora 'version' of '29'.

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Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2019-11-27 23:08:00 UTC 
Fedora 29 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-11-26. Fedora 29 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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Comment 6 Neal Gompa 2019-11-28 02:51:46 UTC 
Let's try to keep this from getting closed again...
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