yum-repoforge Cookbook

The RepoForge project maintains RPM packages for:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• CentOS
• Scientific Linux

The yum-repoforge cookbook takes over management of the default repositoryids used by repoforge. It allows attribute manipulation of rpmforge, rpmforge-extras, and rpmforge-testing

Requirements

Platforms

• RHEL/CentOS and derivatives

Chef

• Chef 12.14+

Cookbooks

• yum-epel

Attributes

The following attributes are set by default

default['yum']['rpmforge']['repositoryid'] = 'rpmforge'
default['yum']['rpmforge']['description'] = 'RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag'
default['yum']['rpmforge']['mirrorlist'] = "http://mirrorlist.repoforge.org/el#{node['platform_version'].to_i}/mirrors-rpmforge"
default['yum']['rpmforge']['enabled'] = true
default['yum']['rpmforge']['managed'] = true
default['yum']['rpmforge']['gpgcheck'] = true
default['yum']['rpmforge']['gpgkey'] = 'http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt'

default['yum']['rpmforge-extras']['repositoryid'] = 'rpmforge'
default['yum']['rpmforge-extras']['description'] = 'RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - extras'
default['yum']['rpmforge-extras']['mirrorlist'] = "http://mirrorlist.repoforge.org/el#{node['platform_version'].to_i}/mirrors-rpmforge-extras"
default['yum']['rpmforge-extras']['enabled'] = true
default['yum']['rpmforge-extras']['managed'] = true
default['yum']['rpmforge-extras']['gpgcheck'] = true
default['yum']['rpmforge-extras']['gpgkey'] = 'http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt'

default['yum']['rpmforge-testing']['repositoryid'] = 'rpmforge-testing'
default['yum']['rpmforge-testing']['description'] = 'RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - testing'
default['yum']['rpmforge-testing']['mirrorlist'] = "http://mirrorlist.repoforge.org/el#{node['platform_version'].to_i}/mirrors-rpmforge-testing"
default['yum']['rpmforge-testing']['enabled'] = true
default['yum']['rpmforge-testing']['managed'] = false
default['yum']['rpmforge-testing']['gpgcheck'] = true
default['yum']['rpmforge-testing']['gpgkey'] = 'http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt'

Recipes

• default - Walks through node attributes and feeds a yum_resource
• parameters. The following is an example resource generated by the
• recipe during compilation.

  yum_repository 'rpmforge' do
    mirrorlist 'http://mirrorlist.repoforge.org/el6/mirrors-rpmforge'
    description 'RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag'
    enabled true
    gpgcheck true
    gpgkey 'http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt'
  end

Usage Example

To disable the CentOS Extras repository through a Role or Environment definition

default_attributes(
  :yum => {
    :rpmforge => {
      :enabled => {
        false
       }
     }
   }
 )

To enable the rpmforge repository with a wrapper cookbook, place the following in a recipe:

node.default['yum']['rpmforge']['enabled'] = true
node.default['yum']['rpmforge']['managed'] = true

include_recipe 'yum-repoforge'

More Examples

Point the base and updates repositories at an internally hosted server.

node.default['yum']['rpmforge']['enabled'] = true
node.default['yum']['rpmforge']['mirrorlist'] = nil
node.default['yum']['rpmforge']['baseurl'] = 'https://internal.example.com/centos/6/os/x86_64'
node.default['yum']['rpmforge']['sslverify'] = false
include_recipe 'yum-repoforge'

License & Authors

Author: Cookbook Engineering Team (cookbooks@chef.io)

Copyright: 2011-2016, Chef Software, 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.
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