Description

Configures various YUM components on Red Hat-like systems. Includes LWRP for managing repositories and their GPG keys.

Based on the work done by Eric Wolfe and Charles Duffy on the yumrepo cookbook. http://github.com/atomic-penguin/cookbooks/tree/yumrepo/yumrepo

Changes

v0.5.0:

• COOK-675: add recipe for handling EPEL repository
• COOK-722: add recipe for handling IUS repository

v.0.1.2:

• Remove yum update in default recipe, that doesn't update caches, it updates packages installed.

Requirements

RHEL, CentOS or Scientific Linux 5.x or newer. It has not been tested on other platforms or earlier versions. RHEL 6 support is untested (testing and patches are welcome).

Attributes

• node['yum']['epel_release'] - Set the epel release version based on node['platform_version'].
• node['yum']['ius_release'] - Set the IUS release to install.

Recipes

default

The default recipe runs yum update during the Compile Phase of the Chef run to ensure that the system's package cache is updated with the latest. It is recommended that this recipe appear first in a node's run list (directly or through a role) to ensure that when installing packages, Chef will be able to download the latest version available on the remote YUM repository.

yum

Manages the configuration of the /etc/yum.conf via attributes.

epel

Installs the EPEL repository via RPM. Uses the node['yum']['epel_release'] attribute to select the right version of the repository package to install. Also uses the node's platform version (as an integer) for the major release of EL.

ius

Installs the IUS Community repositories via RPM. Uses the node['yum']['ius_release'] attribute to select the right versino of the package to install.

The IUS repository requires EPEL, and the recipe includes yum::epel to install this.

Resources/Providers

key

This LWRP handles importing GPG keys for YUM repositories. Keys can be imported by the url parameter or placed in /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/ by a recipe and then installed with the LWRP without passing the URL.

Actions

• :add: installs the GPG key into /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/
• :remove: removes the GPG key from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/

Attribute Parameters

• key: name attribute. The name of the GPG key to install.
• url: if the key needs to be downloaded, the URL providing the download.

Example

# add the Zenoss GPG key
yum_key "RPM-GPG-KEY-zenoss" do
  url "http://dev.zenoss.com/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-zenoss"
  action :add
end
    
# remove Zenoss GPG key
yum_key "RPM-GPG-KEY-zenoss" do
  action :remove
end

repository

This LWRP provides an easy way to manage additional YUM repositories. GPG keys can be managed with the key LWRP.

Actions

• :add: creates a repository file and builds the repository listing
• :remove: removes the repository file

Attribute Parameters

• repo_name: name attribute. The name of the channel to discover

• description. The description of the repository

• url: The URL providing the packages

• mirrorlist: Default is false, if true the url is considered a list of mirrors

• key: Optional, the name of the GPG key file installed by the key LWRP.

• enabled: Default is 1, set to 0 if the repository is disabled.

• type: Optional, alternate type of repository

• failovermethod: Optional, failovermethod

• bootstrapurl: Optional, bootstrapurl

Example

# add the Zenoss repository
yum_repository "zenoss" do
  name "Zenoss Stable repo"
  url "http://dev.zenoss.com/yum/stable/"
  key "RPM-GPG-KEY-zenoss"
  action :add
end
    
# remove Zenoss repo
yum_repository "zenoss" do
  action :remove
end

Usage

Put recipe[yum] first in the run list to ensure yum update is run before other recipes. You can manage GPG keys either with cookbook_file in a recipe if you want to package it with a cookbook or use the url parameter of the key LWRP.

License and Author

Author:: Eric G. Wolfe Author:: Matt Ray ([email protected]) Author:: Joshua Timberman ([email protected])

Copyright:: 2010 Tippr Inc. Copyright:: 2011 Eric G. Wolfe Copyright:: 2011 Opscode, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.