Description of problem: I have a local repo created by yum-plugin-local/createrepo which can't be read/processed by DNF. It gives the following error.

Failed to synchronize cache for repo '_local' from '[u'file:/home/$USER/Documents/Software/local']': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: realpath(file:/home/$USER/Documents/Software/local) error: No such file or directory, disabling.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dnf-0.5.4-2.fc20.noarch


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Setup a local repo either using yum-plugin-local or createrepo --database ~/_local_repo
2. dnf <command>
3.

Actual results: Fails and disabled the local repo.

Expected results: Should process the local repo just like any other repo


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