This module basically just mimics the epel-release rpm. The same repos are enabled/disabled and the GPG key is imported. In the end you will end up with the EPEL repos configured.
The following Repos will be setup and enabled by default:
- epel
Other repositories that will setup but disabled (as per the epel-release setup)
- epel-debuginfo
- epel-source
- epel-testing
- epel-testing-debuginfo
- epel-testing-source
If you have an http proxy required to access the internet, you can use the $proxy variable in the params.pp file. If it is set to a value other than 'absent' a proxy will be setup with each repository. Note that otherwise each of the repos will fall back to settings in the /etc/yum.conf file.
I am a big fan of EPEL. I actually was one of the people who helped get it going. I am also the owner of the epel-release package, so in general this module should stay fairly up to date with the official upstream package.
I just got sick of coding Puppet modules and basically having an assumption that EPEL was setup or installed. I can now depend on this module instead.
I realize it is fairly trivial to get EPEL setup. Every now-and-then however the path to epel-release changes because something changes in the package (mass rebuild, rpm build macros updates, etc). This module will bypass the changing URL and just setup the package mirrors.
This does mean that if you are looking for RPM macros that are normally included with EPEL release, this will not have them.
- This was tested using Puppet 2.7.x on Centos5/6
- I assume it will work on any RHEL variant
- Also, I think this should work with earlier versions of Puppet (2.6.x at least)
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