Yumrepo

Description

Manages Yum Repository files in /etc/yum.repos.d on CentOS / RHEL 5.x.

Yum repositories included in this recipe:
EPEL, ELFF, Dell OMSA, Dell Community, Dell Firmware, VMware Tools, and more...

Requirements

This cookbook requires RHEL or CentOS 5.x, and newer.
It has not been tested on other platforms. It probably will
not work with RHEL 4 or CentOS 4, especially if you have not
taken action to manually install yum on that platform.

Notes

RHEL 6 support is fairly well tested in the dell, vmware-tools, and
epel recipes. Let me know if you find a platform 6 bug, related to
any one of the recipes.

The yumrepo::dell recipe requires Dell manufactured hardware. This
recipe should automatically disable itself if non-Dell hardware is
detected by Ohai

A breaking change in this cookbook is the introduction of an upgrade
recipe for vmware-tools. Since VMWare does not support upgrades
on their packaged vmware-tools, I created a vmware-tools-upgrade
recipe to migrate from vmware-tools 4.1 to 5.0u1. You should
ensure the yumrepo recipes are not in a base role, until all your nodes
have been migrated to 5.0u1. Due to this incompatibility, vmware-tools
has been removed from the default recipe. If you still need vmware-tools
for ESX 4.1, use the previous version of this cookbook 0.15.4.

The yumrepo::vmware-tools recipe requires a VMWare Virtual Machine.
This recipe should automatically disable itself if non-VMWare hardware
is detected by Ohai.

Individual Recipe Usage:

yumrepo::default

Includes recipes:

• yum::yum
• epel
• dell

yumrepo::epel

• Provides RPM keys and repo file for Fedora EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)
  • See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL for more info

yumrepo::dell

• Provides repo files for the following Dell repositories.

  • hardware / Open Manage Server Administrator
  • community / formerly the software repository
  • firmware / Convenient but unsupported by Dell
  • See http://linux.dell.com for more info

• repo[:dell][:download_firmware] = true||false

  • disables/enables community/firmware repositories in dell recipe
  • OMSA (hardware) repository will detect Dell hardware platform and enable itself, dynamically. It is not affected by this attribute.

yumrepo::rbel

• Provides repo files for rbel.frameos.org
  • Ruby and Opscode Chef packages for RHEL distros

yumrepo::vmware-tools-upgrade

• Removes vmware-tools for ESX 4.1 installed with this cookbook. Then includes the yumrepo::vmware-tools recipe to re-install VMWare Tools compatiblie with ESX 5.0u1. This must be in your run list before the yumrepo::vmware-tools recipe to successfully upgrade the tools with the recipe.

yumrepo::vmware-tools

• Uninstalls VMwareTools rpm installed from the VMware ESX "Install/Upgrade VMware Tools" menu
• Uninstalls manually installed vmware-tools packages, the recipe needs to first run vmware-uninstall-tools.pl to use the RPM packages from the repo.
• Provides RPM keys and repo file for VMware Tools for the ESX 4.1 release
  • See http://packages.vmware.com for more info

Attributes

• repo[:vmware][:release] (ESX version number, default 5.0u1)
  • This is used to determine the correct URL in the VMware RHEL5/CentOS repository.

yumrepo::annvix

• Annvix repository for packages usable with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS.
  • See http://annvix.org for more information.

yumrepo::postgresql9

• PostgreSQL 9.0 RPMs
  • See http://pgrpms.org for more information.

yumrepo::zenoss

• ZenOss Network Monitoring System
  • See http://zenoss.org for more information

yumrepo::corporate

• Generic example recipe to be used with an internal Yum mirror, or repository.
  • By default this recipe uses the basename of your domain as the repository name.

yumrepo::jenkins

• Jenkins CI yum repository

License and Author

Author:: Eric G. Wolfe
Copyright:: 2010-2011

Author:: Tippr, Inc.
Copyright:: 2010

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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