Author

Michael Andres ma@su.nosp@m.se.d.nosp@m.e

Environment Variables

Note that for Boolean variables we usually test whether the variable exists and not for the assigned value.

zypp config options

• ZYPP_CONF= <PATH> Location of the zypp.conf file.
• ZYPP_LOCK_TIMEOUT= <sec> If zypp is locked by another process wait this number of seconds for the lock becoming available.

Variables related to commit

• ZYPP_IS_RUNNING=1 Set during commit so packages pre/post/trigger scripts can detect whether rpm was called from within libzypp.

Variables related to logging

• ZYPP_LOGFILE= <PATH> Location of the logfile to write or - for stderr.
• ZYPP_FULLLOG=1 Even more verbose logging (usually not needed).
• ZYPP_LIBSOLV_FULLLOG=1 Verbose logging when resolving dependencies.
• (ZYPP_LIBSAT_FULLLOG=1) deprecated since libzypp-10.x, prefer ZYPP_LIBSOLV_FULLLOG

• ZYPP_MEDIA_CURL_DEBUG=<1|2> Log http headers, if 2 also log server responses.

Selecting the mediabackend to use.

• ZYPP_MULTICURL=0 Turn off multicurl (metalink and zsync) and fall back to plain libcurl.

Variables related to plugins

• PLUGIN_DEBUG=1 Verbose logging from plugin framework.
• PLUGIN_TIMEOUT= <sec> Send/receive timeout for plugin communication.
• PLUGIN_SEND_TIMEOUT= <sec> Send timeout for plugin communication.
• PLUGIN_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT= <sec> Receive timeout for plugin communication.

Variables not for common use (test and debug)

• ZYPP_MODALIAS_SYSFS= <PATH> Use this instead of /sys to evaluate modaliases.
• ZYPP_COMMIT_NO_PACKAGE_CACHE=1
• ZYPP_TESTSUITE_FAKE_ARCH Never use this!
• ZYPPTMPDIR= <PATH>
• ZYPP_LOCKFILE_ROOT= <PATH> Hack to circumvent the currently poor –root support.
• ZYPP_PROFILING=1