Why apticron, when we have cron-apt already? Some people have different preferences, we use apticron along with the upgrade_package functionality in this module. I know someone who uses cron-apt to run the upgrades, but apticron for notifications, because apticron's notifications are much nicer (cron-apt just gives you the output of apt-get upgrade)
the templates/Debian/preferences_lenny.erb file checked in with
e2f80db7b7 contains pinning based on codename,
which is not supported in lenny (see #433624 - if you look at the version graph,
you see, "Fixed in version 0.7.21", and lenny has 0.7.20.2+lenny1.)
Just so people are clear that they do not need to specify a $custom_key_dir to manage the debian archive keyring, I've added some clarifying text so you know that this is not necessary
The README described a few things that were not true relating to the
apt/preferences file.
First of all it said you could ship a 'file', but preferences.pp very clearly
uses the 'content => $custom_preferences' parameter, which will not take file
sources, only templates.
Secondly, it seemed to imply that you could just drop the custom preferences
into your site-apt and it would work. But you actually need to set the
$custom_preferences to indicate the content source.
Lastly, it said that you could specify a host-specific file in the site-apt
module, but there is no facility for this (nor can you use files).
Perhaps this is where this module is going eventually, once we have a
preferences.d possibility? Until then, it makes more sense to have it reflect
the current situation.
The CDN checks your IP and uses the Max-Mind geoIP DB to determine your location and then uses your local country Debian Mirror, or if your local country doesn't have a debian mirror, it uses the local continent. It automatically checks and prunes dead mirrors. the technology for the Debian CDN setup is still improving, I believe that ASN-number associations are the next step to attempt to make more informed, finer-grained choices.
This is more useful than using ftp.debian.org because that is just a round-robin DNS entry that could get you any mirror anywhere.
Before you only had the choice of setting a 03clean apt configuration for either
all hosts, or every single host. Setting it to have the recommended settings for
vservers for all hosts meant that you were setting it for non-vservers as well
as vservers. The other option you had was to set it per host. This was a bit
annoying if you have any more than one vserver because you would need to create
a 03clean for every single vserver guest.
This change auto-detects if the node is a vserver, and if it is it automatically
installs the 03clean_vserver file, with the recommended DSelect::Clean settings,
and allows you to override this for all of your vservers, or for specific hosts.
Current mode (600) makes it impossible to use apt-cache to search for
package names and info, since it tries to read all configuration files
in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d before executing.
Change configuration file mode to 644 so that search tasks can be made
without root priviledge.
My branch already has support for defining custom APT mirrors location.
See $apt_debian_url, $apt_security_url, $apt_backports_url, $apt_volatile_url.
=> Discarding the addition of $main_apt_source.
Merging one more commit.
Conflicts:
files/preferences
templates/Debian/sources.list.deb-src.erb
templates/Debian/sources.list.volatile.erb
templates/Ubuntu/sources.list.backports.erb
templates/Ubuntu/sources.list.deb-src.erb
Going on merging immerda changes.
Incompatible change: I do prefer my own generic apt/preferences template to
shipping a static file that only supports Lenny. My own template supports
security, backports, volatile, next release etc.
Conflicts:
files/preferences
manifests/init.pp
manifests/preferences.pp
Let's set refreshonly on the 'update_apt' Exec (aliased to 'apt_updated')
instead of removing it for backward compatibility: it may be in use at some
places to trigger updates.
File headers are there to indicate that the files should not be touched
directly on the server. By changing the first sentence to "This file is
managed by Puppet", we reinforce the idea that it is already taken care
of by something else.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
Include new classes and defines and move things around for a little bit
of consistency.
Also remove the now unused variables.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
Add a file resource on the apt/sources.list.d directory to ensure that
it is created as a directory and watch it for modifications to
automatically refresh the apt cache.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
Unattended upgrades are not always necessary. Including the
apt::unattended_upgrades class through the main apt class is not
appropriate. It is better to make nodes include the
apt::unattended_upgrades class explicitly.
Remove the $apt_unattended_upgrades variable along with the include in
the 'apt' class.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
Currently, setting the $custom_preferences variable to false fails
because of the /etc/apt/preferences concatenated_file being re-defined.
Fix this by setting dependencies on the resource only when we expect to
create the /etc/apt/preferences file. Also, since there is no "ensure"
parameter to concatenated_file, use a simple file resource to ensure
that it is removed.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
The current proxy_client template makes it possible to communicate with
the proxy only via HTTP. Add the protocol to the variable so that it's
possible to change the protocol.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
Currently, it's either we use the default source that's hardcoded in the
sources.list template or we redefine entirely this template.
Make it easier to just change the URL of the apt source while using the
rest of the default template by adding a $main_apt_source variable.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
