Puppet

My tests using a epel.repo on RHEL5/puppet 0.24.6 seemed to let me edit all three entries in the epel.repo file just fine.

Now when I removed the epel-release rpms and let my same huge yumrepo definitions try to create everything for me, they generated multiple files rather than stuffing things into a collective file. The only problem with this I see is that if I installed epel-release after my yumrepo definitions have created 20 files, then I’ll have duplicates (it’ll just replace my epel.repo without removing epel-source.repo and epel-debuginfo.repo).

Is the original request just requesting that yumrepo get a file=> parameter? Or is it a request to fix a broken repo from another application?

My vanilla Centos 5 installation installs a single file, /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo that contains several repos, base, updates, addons, extras and centosplus. If I try to enable/disable any of these using puppet yumrepo definitions then they will create new files called the name of the individual repo and will clash with the contents of the file shipped by Centos. The behaviour I was expecting was that puppet would find the repo inside a file and use that in preference to creating a new one.

Centos themselves ship repo files that contain multiple repos so I think you have to treat that as accepted practice and work out how to manage them.

From epel-release’s “/etc/yum.repo.d/epel.repo”, modified with the puppet config below:

[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL

baseurl=http://my.server/pub/monthly/epel/5/$basearch
[epel-debuginfo]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch/debug
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
gpgcheck=1

baseurl=http://my.server/pub/monthly/epel/5/$basearch/debug
[epel-source]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/SRPMS
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
gpgcheck=1
baseurl=http://my.server/pub/monthly/epel/5/SRPMS

My puppet definitions:

        file {
                "/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL":
                        owner => root, group => root, mode => 0444,
                        source => "puppet://$servername/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL";
        }
        Yumrepo {
                mirrorlist => absent,
                enabled => 0,
                gpgcheck => 1,
                gpgkey => "file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL",
                require => File["/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL"]
        }
        $server = "http://my.server/pub/monthly"
        # Note that EPEL hardcodes the RHEL 3/4/5 version, so $operatingsystemrelease isn't escaped here!
        yumrepo {
                "epel":
                        enabled => 1,
                        descr => "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux $operatingsystemrelease - \$basearch",
                        baseurl => "$server/epel/$operatingsystemrelease/\$basearch";
                "epel-debuginfo":
                        descr => "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux $operatingsystemrelease - \$basearch - Debug",
                        baseurl => "$server/epel/$operatingsystemrelease/\$basearch/debug";
                "epel-source":
                        descr => "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux $operatingsystemrelease - \$basearch - Source",
                        baseurl => "$server/epel/$operatingsystemrelease/SRPMS";
                "epel-testing":
                        descr => "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux $operatingsystemrelease - Testing - \$basearch",
                        baseurl => "$server/epel/testing/$operatingsystemrelease/\$basearch";
                "epel-testing-debuginfo":
                        descr => "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux $operatingsystemrelease - Testing - \$basearch - Debug",
                        baseurl => "$server/epel/testing/$operatingsystemrelease/\$basearch/debug";
                "epel-testing-source":
                        descr => "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux $operatingsystemrelease - Testing - \$basearch - Source",
                        baseurl => "$server/epel/testing/$operatingsystemrelease/SRPMS";
        }

As I said, it works for me. Things only get confused if I puppet first and then install epel-release, at which point it doesn’t create epel.repo, it creates epel.repo.rpmnew instead (config file already exists, so rpm doesn’t clobber it). It is possible this is a 0.24.7-specific bug because my RHEL5 box only has 0.24.6.

You might need the ‘descr’ lines set and matching to make it work? I hadn’t tested without them.