def _get_yum_config():
    '''
    Returns a dict representing the yum config options and values.

    We try to pull all of the yum config options into a standard dict object.
    This is currently only used to get the reposdir settings, but could be used
    for other things if needed.

    If the yum python library is available, use that, which will give us all of
    the options, including all of the defaults not specified in the yum config.
    Additionally, they will all be of the correct object type.

    If the yum library is not available, we try to read the yum.conf
    directly ourselves with a minimal set of "defaults".
    '''
    # in case of any non-fatal failures, these defaults will be used
    conf = {
        'reposdir': ['/etc/yum/repos.d', '/etc/yum.repos.d'],
    }

    if HAS_YUM:
        try:
            yb = yum.YumBase()
            yb.preconf.init_plugins = False
            for name, value in six.iteritems(yb.conf):
                conf[name] = value
        except (AttributeError, yum.Errors.ConfigError) as exc:
            raise CommandExecutionError(
                'Could not query yum config: {0}'.format(exc)
            )
        except yum.Errors.YumBaseError as yum_base_error:
            raise CommandExecutionError(
                'Error accessing yum or rpmdb: {0}'.format(yum_base_error)
            )
    else:
        # fall back to parsing the config ourselves
        # Look for the config the same order yum does
        fn = None
        paths = ('/etc/yum/yum.conf', '/etc/yum.conf', '/etc/dnf/dnf.conf', '/etc/tdnf/tdnf.conf')
        for path in paths:
            if os.path.exists(path):
                fn = path
                break

        if not fn:
            raise CommandExecutionError(
                'No suitable yum config file found in: {0}'.format(paths)
            )

        cp = configparser.ConfigParser()
        try:
            cp.read(fn)
        except (IOError, OSError) as exc:
            raise CommandExecutionError(
                'Unable to read from {0}: {1}'.format(fn, exc)
            )

        if cp.has_section('main'):
            for opt in cp.options('main'):
                if opt in ('reposdir', 'commands', 'excludes'):
                    # these options are expected to be lists
                    conf[opt] = [x.strip()
                                 for x in cp.get('main', opt).split(',')]
                else:
                    conf[opt] = cp.get('main', opt)
        else:
            log.warning(
                'Could not find [main] section in %s, using internal '
                'defaults',
                fn
            )

    return conf
Returns a dict representing the yum config options and values.

    We try to pull all of the yum config options into a standard dict object.
    This is currently only used to get the reposdir settings, but could be used
    for other things if needed.

    If the yum python library is available, use that, which will give us all of
    the options, including all of the defaults not specified in the yum config.
    Additionally, they will all be of the correct object type.

    If the yum library is not available, we try to read the yum.conf
    directly ourselves with a minimal set of "defaults".