DNF plugin directory?

[Tom Horsley]

Is there a way to ask the question:

What directory do I use to install a DNF plugin?

Because it seems to change in every fedora release, and so far
the only way I can find it is to run dnf under strace and
see where it looks for plugins :-).

There wouldn't happen to be a release independent directory
like /etc/dnf/plugins or something that won't constantly
change on me?

[Rick Stevens]

On 06/23/2016 11:37 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Is there a way to ask the question:
>
> What directory do I use to install a DNF plugin?
>
> Because it seems to change in every fedora release, and so far
> the only way I can find it is to run dnf under strace and
> see where it looks for plugins :-).
>
> There wouldn't happen to be a release independent directory
> like /etc/dnf/plugins or something that won't constantly
> change on me?

You can define it in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf's "pluginpath" directive. AFAIK,
in the absence of such a directive, it's based on a python version-
specific directory and will change when Python changes. Generally it's
going to be

/usr/lib/python<version>/site-packages/dnf-plugins

On my F23 updated systems, I'm running Python 3.4, so the path is

/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/dnf-plugins

YMMV
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