[Puppet Users] How do you install a yum repo?

There is a built in Puppet type for yum repos. The docs for it are
here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#yumrepo
You could also use a package resource with a sourch of the rpm,
something like...

package {"virtualmin":
ensure => present,
source => "http://software.virtualmin.com/bleed/centos/5/i386/virtualmin-bleed-release-1.0-1.rhel.noarch.rpm",
provider => rpm,
}

HTH

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Laurence Cope
wrote:

You'll want to use the yumrepo resource, documented here:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#yumrepo

Here's an example of a basic yumrepo block:

yumrepo { "myrepo":
baseurl => "http://local.server.org/myrepo/$operatingsystem/$operatingsystemrelease/$architecture",
descr => "My Local Repo",
enabled => 1,
gpgcheck => 0,
}

This is an aside, but you should really be using gpgcheck. I define
repositories with yumrepo, but I also have a separate file resource to copy
the gpgkey to a local directory and set the appropriate yumrepo parameters.

I have my own module for managing yum repos, and here is how it looks
like for example for EPEL repo:

# Class: yumreposd::epel
#
# This module manages EPEL repo files for $lsbdistrelease
#
class yumreposd::epel {
file { '/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo':
ensure => file,
mode => '0644',
owner => root,
group => root,
source =>
"puppet:///modules/yumreposd/${::operatingsystem}/${::operatingsystemrelease}/epel.repo",
require => [ Package['epel-release'], Class['yumreposd::base'] ],
}

# install package depending on major version
case $::operatingsystemrelease {
default: {}
/^5.*/: {
package { 'epel-release':
ensure => present,
provider => 'rpm',
source =>
'http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
',
}
}
/^6.*/: {
package { 'epel-release':
ensure => present,
provider => 'rpm',
source =>
'http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm
',
}
}
}
}


Notice that I manage also files section, and distribute finished
epel.repo file.


And in the node manifest (or template that node inherits), I just do:

# yum repos
stage {'yumreposd': before => Stage['main'] }
class {'yumreposd': stage => 'yumreposd' }
class {'yumreposd::base': stage => 'yumreposd' }
class {'yumreposd::epel': stage => 'yumreposd' }
class {'yumreposd::srce': stage => 'yumreposd' }
class {'yumreposd::puppetlabs': stage => 'yumreposd' }


This ensures that all my repos are set up before any other class, so
that I don't have to maintain dependencies on repos.


If you wish I can tar the whole module and share it.

thanks for all that. The examples above look like some I found online (not
specific to Virtualmin) which failed with errors. but maybe there were
slight differences. I am off work for couple of days now, so will try these
when I get back. I really appreciate it. you can tell I am new, once I get
over these few hurdles I am sure I will be fine.

@stephen yes I agree, I just wanted to cut it out until I got the rest
working, one less thing that may cause errors! one step at a time :)

Cool, cool. If I'm installing a repo for the first time, I usually install
the rpm manually on a test machine, then grab the .repo file from
/etc/yum.repos.d and the referenced gpgkey, and add everything in Puppet
with a custom define (which is really a wrapper around yumrepo with the
additional file resource I mentioned). Makes upgrading the repo a manual
process, but gives you more control.

Also, there is a much simpler way using your original approach. The Package
type has a provider parameter that can be set to rpm. So instead of an
exec, you just have a package resource that installs that rpm.

You should also look into the unless parameter to exec. It runs a command
to determine if the exec needs to be run or not.

Can puppet yumrepo handle a private repo that requires http auth username
and password? The virtualmin repo I am using requires a username and
password to login, so the URL would be:-

http://username:password@software.virtualmin.com/gpl/rhel/6.3/i386/


Full class:-

class yum


But I get this error all the time that means nothing to me:-

Error: /Stage[main]/Yum/Yumrepo[virtualmin]: Could not evaluate:

Does anyone know what this error means, I get this nearly all the time when
trying above and other classes out, this is where I am stuck adding a
repo...

Error: /Stage[main]/Yum/Yumrepo[virtualmin]: Could not evaluate:

Does anyone know what this error means, I get this nearly all the time when
trying above and other classes out, this is where I am stuck adding a
repo...

Error: /Stage[main]/Yum/Yumrepo[virtualmin]: Could not evaluate:

I get the feeling it may mean its not a repo? This is the URL I am using,
but I have used various others which I thought were repos.

http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/rhel/6.3/i386/

The error say that on line 8 of file /etc/yum.repos.d/puppet.repo there is something that it cannot interpret. Usually some type of syntax error, but it could be something else.
Your first step is to look at that file on the host that is getting the error and see what is there. If it is not obvious, post that section of the file and with a note of which line it is complaining about.

Steven

Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 07:39:11 -0800
From: amitywebsolutions@gmail.com
To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: How do you install a yum repo?

Does anyone know what this error means, I get this nearly all the time when trying above and other classes out, this is where I am stuck adding a repo...
Error: /Stage[main]/Yum/Yumrepo[virtualmin]: Could not evaluate: /etc/yum.repos.d/puppet.repo:8: Can't parse 'Read more: http://www.how2centos.com/centos-6-puppet-install/#ixzz2Cgm74wkh'
I get the feeling it may mean its not a repo? This is the URL I am using, but I have used various others which I thought were repos.
http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/rhel/6.3/i386/

Thanks Steven. The error was the line that said "Read more..." but I
thought that was a Puppet output telling me to read more about the error, I
got really confused! Once I looked at puppet.repo it was immediately
obvious!
Thanks

Dont worry about my error! I found it. Eventually! I was following this
tutorial:

And somehow, during some copying and pasting the [puppetlabs] repo text,
the line "Read more
http://www.how2centos.com/centos-6-puppet-install/#ixzz2Cgm74wkh" ended up
in my puppet.repo file and was throwing this error.

So fixed now and seems I can installed repos.

Dont worry about my error! I found it. Eventually! I was following this
tutorial:
http://www.how2centos.com/centos-6-puppet-install/

And somehow, during some copying and pasting the [puppetlabs] repo text,
the line "Read more
http://www.how2centos.com/centos-6-puppet-install/#ixzz2Cgm74wkh" ended up
in my puppet.repo file and was throwing this error.

So fixed now and seems I can installed repos.