reprepro Cookbook

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Sets up an APT repository suitable for using the reprepro tool to manage distributions and components.

See the reprepro documentation for more information about reprepro itself, including the man(1) page in the package http://mirrorer.alioth.debian.org/ (opens in a new tab)

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Requirements

Platforms

Debian/Ubuntu

Chef

Chef 14+

Cookbooks

nginx
apache2
gpg

You'll need to generate the PGP key separately and provide the data in the databag.

Attributes

Attributes in this cookbook are set via the default recipe with data from the data bag. The following attributes are used, in the reprepro namespace.

fqdn - the fqdn that would go in sources.list
description - a description of the repository
pgp_email - the email address of the pgp key
pgp_fingerprint - the finger print of the pgp key

Data Bag based repository

Create a data bag to store the repository information. It should be named reprepro. The recipe uses the main data bag item.

{
  "id": "main",
  "fqdn": "apt.example.com",
  "repo_dir": "/srv/apt",
  "incoming": "/srv/apt_incoming",
  "description": "APT Repository for our packages.",
  "codenames": [
    "lucid", "hardy", "sid", "squeeze", "lenny"
  ],
  "allow": [
    "unstable>sid", "stable>squeeze"
  ],
  "pgp": {
    "email": "packages@example.com",
    "fingerprint": "PGP Fingerprint for the key",
    "public": "-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----\n-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----\n",
    "private": "-----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----\n-----END PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----\n"
  },
  "pulls": {
    "name": "sid",
    "from": "sid",
    "component": "main"
  },
  "architectures": [
    "amd64","i386","all","source"
  ]
}

fqdn: the fully qualified domain name of the apt server, used in
in the Apache vhost template and as the Origin in the distributions
configuration. Also saved to the node as
node['reprepro']['fqdn].
repo_dir: directory on disk where reprepro will serve the packages
incoming: the incoming directory, used in the incoming
configuration.
description: description about the repository, also saved to the
node as node['reprepro']['description'].
codenames: array of codenames to set up for the repository, used
with allow for the Allow directive in the incoming configuration
allow: [optional] array of additional codenames to use in the incoming
configuration
pgp: hash of options for the pgp setup. the
pgp['email']: email address of the signing key
pgp['fingerprint]: fingerprint of the PGP key
pgp['public]: the public PGP key, should be a single line
(replace line endings with \n)
pgp['private]: the private PGP key, should be a single line
(replace line endings with \n)
pulls: hash used in the pulls configuration.
architectures: array of architectures to create in distributions configuration

Attribute based configuration

Configuration of the repository can also be driven via attributes. The same keys available for the data bag are available via node attributes with the exception of the pgp hash. Using attribute based configuration will have a PGP key pair auto generated on the node when it is built.

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