[chef] Re: Re: Redhat admins, if a cookbook enables EPEL, is that a surprise?

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Ohai,


On 11/20/12 6:30 PM, "David Petzel" 
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 wrote:

>I'd much rather see a boolean attribute of "use_public_epel" or something
>with that intent. This way I have the option to use the external repo,
>however I still have the flexibility to use an internal repo if your
>nodes don't have access to the public net, or if you just don't want to
>traverse the wan link on multiple nodes, when you've got the same package
>available internally.

The current version of the cookbook, 2.0.0, has an attribute for setting
the EPEL URL:

    node['yum']['epel']['url']

By default its the appropriate mirror list URL from the Fedora project
site based on platform and platform version.

If you have an internal yum repository that you use for EPEL, or to
"mimic" EPEL, you can use that URL instead.

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