subscribe-repos

This playbook configures a RHEL server to receive its updates from a reposync server. On your reposync server register the server against RHN and then run the following script as a cron job (or use the setup-reposerver role):

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#!/bin/bash

SERVERIP=1.2.3.4 ## change me

cd /var/www/html/repos

#Full or Diff sync the Repos
reposync -n -d -l --downloadcomps --download-metadata

ls -l | grep ^d | awk '{print $9}' | while read dirs; do
  echo $dirs
  if [ -f ${dirs}/comps.xml ]; then
     createrepo -v ${dirs}/ -g comps.xml
  else
     createrepo -v ${dirs}/
  fi

  rf=/var/www/html/repofiles/${dirs}.repo
  echo "[$dirs]" > $rf
  echo "name=$dirs" >> $rf
  echo "baseurl=http://${SERVERIP}/repos/$dirs/" >> $rf
  echo "enabled=1" >> $rf
  echo "gpgcheck=0" >> $rf

done

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This role is one of the first to run after the base installation to set the repositories

Requirements

To use this role you need a properly configured repo server as explained above, serving the repos

Role Variables

You can then set the following variables in the playbook:

Define the URL that points to the directory, where the repofiles exist in "reponame.repo", e.g. rhel-7-server-rpms.repo

reposrvurl: http://$SERVERIP/repofiles/

Set this variable to true if you want to remove/disable all previously existing repositories. The default is false

 repo_reset: true

Use this to define the list of repositories you want to subscribe to

 repositories:
              - rhel-7-server-rpms
              - repo2
              - repo3

Example Playbook

Here is an example playbook that adds two repositories on the clients (hosts in group clients) and disables all previously set repositories. The repository server that contain the repo files is set in reposrvurl

- hosts: clients
  remote_user: root

  vars:
      reposrvurl: http://myserver.lan/repofiles/
      repo_reset: true
      repositories:
              - rhel-7-server-rpms
              - rhel-sap-hana-for-rhel-7-server-rpms


  roles:
     - { role: mk-ansible-roles.subscribe-repos }

License

Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004

Author Information

Markus Koch

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