yum-epel (57) Versions 4.0.1 Follow95

Installs and configures the EPEL Yum repository

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cookbook 'yum-epel', '= 4.0.1'

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yum-epel Cookbook

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL).

The yum-epel cookbook takes over management of the default repositoryids shipped with epel-release.

Below is a table showing which repositoryids we manage that are shipped by default via the epel-release package:

Repo ID	EL 7	EL 8
epel	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
epel-debuginfo	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
epel-modular	:x:	:heavy_check_mark:
epel-modular-debuginfo	:x:	:heavy_check_mark:
epel-modular-source	:x:	:heavy_check_mark:
epel-playground	:x:	:heavy_check_mark:
epel-playground-debuginfo	:x:	:heavy_check_mark:
epel-playground-source	:x:	:heavy_check_mark:
epel-source	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
epel-testing	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
epel-testing-debuginfo	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:
epel-testing-modular	:x:	:heavy_check_mark:
epel-testing-modular-debuginfo	:x:	:heavy_check_mark:
epel-testing-modular-source	:x:	:heavy_check_mark:
epel-testing-source	:heavy_check_mark:	:heavy_check_mark:

Requirements

Platforms

RHEL/CentOS and derivatives

Chef

Chef 12.15+

Cookbooks

none

Attributes

See individual repository attribute files for defaults.

Recipes

yum-epel::default Generates yum_repository configs for the standard EPEL repositories. By default the epel repository is enabled.

Usage Example

To disable the epel repository through a Role or Environment definition

default_attributes(
  :yum => {
    :epel => {
      :enabled => {
        false
       }
     }
   }
 )

Uncommonly used repositoryids are not managed by default. This is speeds up integration testing pipelines by avoiding yum-cache builds that nobody cares about. To enable the epel-testing repository with a wrapper cookbook, place the following in a recipe:

node.default['yum']['epel-testing']['enabled'] = true
node.default['yum']['epel-testing']['managed'] = true
include_recipe 'yum-epel'

More Examples

Point the epel repositories at an internally hosted server.

node.default['yum']['epel']['enabled'] = true
node.default['yum']['epel']['mirrorlist'] = nil
node.default['yum']['epel']['baseurl'] = 'https://internal.example.com/centos/7/os/x86_64'
node.default['yum']['epel']['sslverify'] = false

include_recipe 'yum-epel'

License & Authors

Author: Cookbook Engineering Team (cookbooks@chef.io)

Copyright: 2011-2016, Chef Software, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Dependent cookbooks

This cookbook has no specified dependencies.

Contingent cookbooks

yum-epel Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the yum-epel cookbook.

4.0.1 (2021-01-04)

Return empty array on non-yum systems - @ramereth

4.0.0 (2020-12-15)

Cookstyle fixes - @tas50
Switch all http URLs to HTTPS URLs - @damacus
Switch gpgkey urls - @knightorc
Require Chef 12.15+ - @tas50
Remove CentOS 6 / Amazon Linux 201X support/testing - @ramereth
Improve InSpec test by using yum.repo resource - @ramereth
Fix repo descriptions on Amazon Linux - @ramereth
Test all supported repos in new "all" suite - @ramereth
Ensure other epel repos are not enabled in default suite - @ramereth
Add various modular and playground repos for EL8 - @ramereth
Update README - @ramereth
Cleanup metadata.rb formatting - @ramereth

3.3.0 (2018-10-09)

Fix cookbook to work on all releases of Amazon Linux 2
Test on Amazon Linux 2 in specs and in Travis

3.2.0 (2018-07-24)

Support EPEL on ARM32.

3.1.0 (2018-02-26)

Add support for Amazon Linux 2.0

3.0.0 (2018-02-16)

Require Chef 12.14+ and remove the compat_resource dependency

2.1.2 (2017-06-15)

Switch from Rake testing to Local Delivery
Update apache2 license string to be a SPDX compliant string
Change yum repo location of gpgkey to download.fedoraproject.org instead of dl.fedoraproject.org
Avoid chefspec deprecations and speed up specs

2.1.1 (2017-01-05)

Revert how mirror list strings are generated to fix RHEL 7

2.1.0 (2016-12-22)

Test in Travis using the current build of chef/chef docker image
Test on older Chef
allow the use of any valid property via attributes
fixing tests
output versions in the job that is being ran
cops

2.0.0 (2016-11-26)

Clarify that we require Chef 12.1+ not 12.0+
Use compat_resource instead of the yum cookbook
Add integration testing with inspec

1.0.2 (2016-10-21)

Remove upper bound on yum constraint

1.0.1 (2016-09-11)

Fix epel-testing attributes

1.0.0 (2016-09-06)

Add chef_version metadata
Testing updates
Remove support for Chef 11

v0.7.1 (2016-08-19)

Remove bats testing
Fix attribute settings
Cleanup travis file

v0.7.0 (2016-04-27)

Added support for IBM zlinux platform
Added back the Test Kitchen support for local vagrant testing
Added long_description to the metadata
Loosen the dependency on the yum cookbook

v0.6.5

updated to use make_cache option that yum cookbook allows for the yum resource to use.

v0.6.5 (2015-11-23)

Fix setting bool false properties

v0.6.4 (2015-10-27)

Updating default recipe for Chef 13 deprecation warnings. Not
passing nil.

v0.6.3 (2015-09-22)

Added standard Chef gitignore and chefignore files
Added the standard chef rubocop config
Update contributing, maintainers, and testing docs
Update Chefspec config to 4.X format
Update distro versions in the Kitchen config
Add Travis CI and cookbook version badges in the readme
Expand the requirements section in the readme
Add additional distros to the metadata
Added source_url and issues_url metadata

v0.6.2 (2015-06-21)

Depending on yum ~> 3.2
Support for the password attribute wasn't added to the
yum_repository LWRP until yum 3.2.0.

v0.6.1 (2015-06-21)

Switching to https for URL links
Using metalink URLs

v0.6.0 (2015-01-03)

Adding EL7 support

v0.5.3 (2014-10-28)

Revert Use HTTPS for GPG keys and mirror lists

v0.5.2 (2014-10-28)

Use HTTPS for GPG keys and mirror lists
Use local key on Amazon Linux

v0.5.0 (2014-09-02)

Add all attribute available to LWRP to allow for tuning.

v0.4.0 (2014-07-27)

[#9] Allowing list of repositories to reference configurable.

v0.3.6 (2014-04-09)

[COOK-4509] add RHEL7 support to yum-epel cookbook

v0.3.4 (2014-02-19)

COOK-4353 - Fixing typo in readme

v0.3.2 (2014-02-13)

Updating README to explain the 'managed' parameter

v0.3.0 (2014-02-12)

[COOK-4292] - Do not manage secondary repos by default

v0.2.0

Adding Amazon Linux support

v0.1.6

Fixing up attribute values for EL6

v0.1.4

Adding CHANGELOG.md

v0.1.0

initial release

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