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?
Personally I'd want to be able to set different values by environment, and
thus would make it a regular attribute rather than data bag content.
On Oct 15, 2011 3:27 AM, "Bryan Berry" bryan.berry@gmail.com wrote:
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?
That's a great idea Charles, I didn't even realize environments had
attributes! I don't see my urls changing per environment, but I may need to
reconsider this later. Thanks for the idea
On Oct 15, 2011 3:10 PM, "Charles Duffy" charles@dyfis.net wrote:
Personally I'd want to be able to set different values by environment, and
thus would make it a regular attribute rather than data bag content.
On Oct 15, 2011 3:27 AM, "Bryan Berry" bryan.berry@gmail.com wrote:
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?