[chef] idea for corp-epel, a yum repo for your corporate rpm repository

[Bryan Berry < >]

Eric,

sorry to ping you this way but i keep missing u on irc.

We use a few proprietary rpms for crapware from HP and Symantec. For a number of sad reasons that will likely remain true in the future, some vendors won't put their rpms in an internet-accessible repository. Further, some teammates have created a couple hacky rpms that we use but won't become publicly accessible.

I think others may need essentially a private repo and for that reason i have created the corp-epel.rb 

I haven't pushed the code to you yet as I still have to figure out this "vendor branch" thing. hopefully will figure that out this weekend.

Essentially, the recipe for corp-epel looks for the item "corp-epel" in the data bag "urls" and then points to that url. pretty simple really.

More generally, I think that the data bag "urls" could be an excellent way to separate corporate urls for corporate services from recipes.

What do you think?