Overrides and Trust Info

Although you can run recipes themselves, it's conventional practice to create an override and include the override in your schedule. There are two reasons for this:

• The AutoPkg trust info features in AutoPkg version 1.0.0 and higher require using overrides. Running recipes or overrides without trust info will result in a recurring warning during AutoPkg runs, which will no doubt bother you.
• The purpose of a recipe override is to change certain preset variables to match your organization's needs. For example, you may want Firefox to be in a category called "Web Browsers" in your Managed Software Center app or Self Service app. An override is where you set that category.

In AutoPkgr, we've tried to simplify the process of creating and editing AutoPkg recipe overrides.

1. Right-click the newly-added recipe and choose Create Override. Give it a name (or leave the name as is) and click OK.

2. Click the checkbox next to the new override recipe, and it will be included in future scheduled AutoPkg runs.

If you wish to edit the override later, right-click the override in the recipe list and choose Open Recipe Override. The override will open using your preferred text editor.

To select which text editor to use when editing overrides, go to Integrations > Configure AutoPkg > Recipe/Override Editor.

When you update recipe repos, you'll also need to update the trust information in some recipe overrides. AutoPkgr now provides a way to add trust information to existing recipe overrides, however, we still recommend manually using the update-trust-info verb in AutoPkg 1.0+ for that purpose. Please note that this should only be done after inspecting the changes to the parent recipe. You can read more about recipe trust information on the AutoPkg wiki.

Recipe overrides allow you to tailor recipes' input variables to your organization's needs. For production use, it's generally recommended to include recipe overrides instead of actual recipes.

We've tried to simplify the process of creating and editing AutoPkg recipe overrides. Just right-click on a recipe in the list, and you'll see options for creating an override or editing an existing override.