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

["Eric G. Wolfe" < >]

On 04/02/2012 05:54 PM, 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.
This check doesn't seem to make sense.  Essentially, "unless" means "not 
if" when testing if the file exists.  The template resource should be 
idempotent without that File.exists check.

It could lead to undesired behavior if you want to update an already 
managed repo file.  I cannot say I have ever noticed this effect in all 
the time I've used this resource, however.  It could possibly be a bug.  
Maybe I am reading this wrong, and it has another purpose.
> 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?
> >
> > thanks,
> > kallen