Setting Model Repo Path

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When setting the model repo path as indicated in the documentation as such:

LLMWareConfig().set_home(".\\llm_models\\")

And confirming that it has worked by:

LLMWareConfig().get_model_repo_path()

When using ModelCatalog().get_llm_toolkit() the models download to the correct location.

But when using ModelCatalog().load_model("llmware/bling-phi-3-gguf") they are loaded to the cache directory. (.cache\huggingface\hub)

Because I want to package a RAG / PySide6 application, I would like to load local gguf models from within the app directory structure.

How can I force model downloads to the set home path?

Thank you!

Start by tracing LLMWareConfig().set_home() and get_model_repo_path() into ModelCatalog().load_model("llmware/bling-phi-3-gguf"), comparing that path with the Hugging Face cache directory used during loading. Confirm the configured home path is honored for this model-loading path, and verify that the model is downloaded and loaded from the application’s configured directory rather than .cache/huggingface/hub.

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