[chef] Re: Re: toggling yum repos to enabled, disabled

disabling the line you mentioned below helped me in another way, but
doesn't address the problem i'm trying to solve:

with the unless condition in place in yum/providers/respository.rb, a
repo file that is already present on a system won't get updated. i
don't like that. :\   .. so for that reason i'd want to disable that
unless (but i don't like hand "patching" the code). are there other
options to updating a repo file in place without first calling
"action :remove", then "action :add" ?

back to the problem at hand, the result that i want is:

[yum.repos.d]# cat epel.repo 
# Generated by Chef for test-kallen
# Local modifications will be overwritten.
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
enabled=0

.. i want "enabled=0" so yum doesn't access that repo by default. but
there are times when i might want to call upon epel by doing
--enablerepo=epel. and in order to do that, epel.repo must be present
on the filesystem. aye?

thots?
kallen



On Mon, 02 Apr 2012, John Alberts wrote:

> I ran into this problem yesterday.  In the yum cookbook file
> yum/providers/respository.rb, comment out the following line:
> unless ::File.exists?("/etc/yum.repos.d/#{new_resource.repo_name}.repo")
> 
> I don't understand the point of this line anyway.
> 
> Regards,
> John
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:05 PM,  
> <
 >
>  wrote:
> >
> > hi.
> >
> > i'm trying to wield the yumrepo cookbook to control the yum repos i dist
> > to my systems. by default, the yum_repository resource from the yum
> > cookbook marks the repo as enabled. so it seems i should be able to
> > toggle that and make the repo disabled by default. but my attempts are
> > failing.
> >
> > this is the yum_repository block from the yumrepo::epel recipe:
> >
> > yum_repository "epel" do
> >  description "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux"
> >  key node['repo']['epel']['key']
> >  url node['repo']['epel']['url']
> >  mirrorlist true
> >  action :add
> > end
> >
> > above the action line i've tried adding 'enabled "0"' and 'enabled 0',
> > but the /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo shows up as "enabled=1".
> >
> > how do i toggle repos as enabled or disabled?