rhn-channels Cookbook

This cookbook contains a LWRP to manage RHN channel subscriptions. This cookbook does not manage RHN node registration, for which you should use https://github.com/bflad/chef-rhn

Github repo: https://github.com/andrewfraley/chef-rhn-channels

Usage

LWRP

Add depends "rhn-channels" to your metadata.rb, then use the rhn_channel resource to add a channel to your system. Also see the included optional_repo.rb recipe for another example.

rhn_channel "rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6" do
 	channel_name "rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6"
 	username "RHNUSERNAME"
 	password "RHNPASSWORD"
  action :add
 end

Alternatively, you can set node['rhn-channels']['rhn_user'] and node['rhn-channels']['rhn_pass'] and simply do:

rhn_channel "rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6"

To remove a channel:

rhn_channel "rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6" do
  action :remove
end

Note that you do not need to set your username and password for RHEL 7

TODO

• Provide a list of available RHEL channels

License and Authors

• License: MIT
• Author: https://github.com/andrewfraley
• Author: Tenyo Grozev (tenyo.grozev@yale.edu)