yum Cookbook

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The Yum cookbook exposes the yum_globalconfig resource which allows a user to control global yum behavior. This resources aims to allow the user to configure all options listed in the yum.conf man page, found at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/yum.conf.5.html (opens in a new tab)

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Requirements

Platforms

RHEL/CentOS and derivatives
Fedora

Chef

Chef 15.3+

Cookbooks

none

Resources

Recipes (deprecated)

default - Configures yum_globalconfig[/etc/yum.conf] with values found in node attributes at node['yum']['main']

Attributes

The following attributes are set by default

default['yum']['main']['cachedir'] = '/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever'
default['yum']['main']['keepcache'] = false
default['yum']['main']['debuglevel'] = nil
default['yum']['main']['exclude'] = nil
default['yum']['main']['logfile'] = '/var/log/yum.log'
default['yum']['main']['exactarch'] = nil
default['yum']['main']['obsoletes'] = nil
default['yum']['main']['installonly_limit'] = nil
default['yum']['main']['installonlypkgs'] = nil
default['yum']['main']['installroot'] = nil

For Amazon platform nodes, the default is to receive a continuous flow of updates,

default['yum']['main']['releasever'] = 'latest'

To lock existing instances to the current version of the Amazon AMI,

default['yum']['main']['releasever'] = ''

Related Cookbooks

Recipes from older versions of this cookbook have been moved individual cookbooks. Recipes for managing platform yum configurations and installing specific repositories can be found in one (or more!) of the following cookbook.

yum-centos
yum-fedora
yum-amazon
yum-epel
yum-elrepo
yum-repoforge
yum-ius
yum-percona
yum-pgdg

Usage

Put depends 'yum' in your metadata.rb to gain access to the yum_repository resource.

Contributors

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Backers

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