Puppet centosrepos module

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Module Description - What the module does and why it is useful
3. Setup - The basics of getting started with centosrepos
   • What centosrepos affects
   • Setup requirements
   • Beginning with centosrepos

Overview

Puppet module to include the CentOS repository.

This module will tipically not be used in a CentOS system, but in any other RedHat-based system.

Module Description

That is a very simple module. It creates a standard /etc/yum.repos/CentOS-base.repo file, with each section enabled/disabled according to the parameters passed to the class. By default all the CentOS repos will be disabled.

Setup

What centosrepos affects

• It creates the /etc/yum.repos/CentOS-base.repo file.

Beginning with centosrepos

To create the CentOS repositories but will all repositories disabled do:

class {'centosrepos':}

To enable only the base repo:

class {'centosrepos':
    enable_base => true
}

To enable base and extras:

class {'centosrepos':
    enable_base   => true,
    enable_extras => true,
}

The list of available CentOS repositories is:

• base
• updates
• extras
• plus
• contrib