createrepo module

What it is and what it isn't

This is module creates yum repositories and metadata caches. It also manages a cronjob to update the repodata.

It doesn't:

• manage the directoy tree up to the root of the repository
• manage a HTTP server for repository clients

Example

createrepo { 'yumrepo':
    repository_dir => '/var/yumrepos/yumrepo',
    repo_cache_dir => '/var/cache/yumrepos/yumrepo'
}

Status

Beta. Tested on CentOS/RHEL 6 with Puppet 2.7.

Regarding checksums

Older versions of yum do not support some later default checksum types. From the createrepo man page:

Choose  the  checksum  type used in repomd.xml and for packages in the metadata.  The default is now
"sha256" (if python has hashlib). The older default was "sha", which is actually "sha1", however explicitly
using "sha1" doesn’t work on older (3.0.x) versions of yum, you need to specify "sha".

createrepo provides a checksum_type parameter to change the checksum type.

Parameters

repository_dir

The path to the base directory of the repository. Here, or in subdirectories you store the .rpm files

• Default: /var/yumrepos/${name}

repo_cache_dir

Path to a checksum directory. Makes updates to repository much faster.

• Default: /var/cache/yumrepos/${name}

repo_owner

Owner of the repository directory.

• Default: root

repo_group

Group of the repository directory.

• Default: root

enable_cron

Enable regular repository updates via cron or Puppet.

• Default: true

cron_minute

Minute parameter for cron metadata update job.

• Default: */1

cron_hour

Hour parameter for cron metadata update job.

• Default: *

changelog_limit

Number of changelog entries to import into metadata.

• Default: 5

checksum_type

Sets the checksum type for repomd.xml. This needs to be set to sha if createrepo is defined on a RHEL/CentOS 6 host and is accessed by RHEL/CentOS 5 or earlier clients.

• Default: undef

Issues

Please log tickets and issues in the modules GitHub issue tracker