Manages repositories for your platform. Currently only Debian-based distributions are supported.

Simple repository source can be described via node attributes. If you need more complicated setup you can use separate recipes, some are supplied with this cookbook.

• Debian/Ubuntu

• node['repos'] - List of repositories to be activated by default recipe. Can be either recipe name to be included or attributes hash. The keys in each hash correspond to the attributes passed to the repository resource. Attribute 'type' defines which repository resource will be used, but only 'apt' is supported now.

If repository is defined in a separate recipe you may either add it directly to run_list, include from your wrapper-cookbook or use data-driven approach and enumerate desired repos in 'repos' attribute anywhere you want.

When you just need to add simple package source without additional actions like pinning, just add attribute hash describing repo in node["repos"] list.

Example use of run_list:

run_list("recipe[repos::percona]")

Example use of 'repos' attribute

run_list("recipe[repos]")
override_attributes( "repos" => ['jenkins-debian-glue', 'backports'] )

Example use of repo hash:

"repos" => ['jenkins-debian-glue',
  { 'type' => "apt",
    'name' => "nginx-1.2.6",
    'uri'  => "http://ci.clodo.ru/release/nginx-1.2.6",
    'distribution' => "nginx-1.2.6",
    'components' => ["main"]
  },
]

To pin down packages and repositories you can use pin_priority attribute of repository and preferences array like this:

"repos" =>[
    { 'type' => 'apt',
      'name' => 'wheezy-backports',
      'pre_packages' => ["debian-keyring"],
      'uri' => 'http://http.debian.net/debian',
      'distribution' => 'wheezy-backports',
      'components' => ['main'],
      'pin_priority' => '99',
      'preferences' => [{
          "packages" => ["rsyslog", "rsyslog-relp", "librelp0", 'libestr0', 'libjson-c2', 'liblogging-stdlog0'],
          "pin_priority" => "501"
      }]
    }
]

To install some packages before setting up repository (like debian-keyring) use pre_packages attribute.

• Databags support