Description

This cookbook will provide LWRPs to create, update and destroy apt repo mirrors using the apt_mirror command. It may also provide a function to set up automatic updating of mirrors via cron job.

Requirements

Requires Chef 0.7.10 or higher for Lightweight Resource and Provider support. Ch ef 0.8+ is recommended.

Packages

• apt-mirror

Attributes

All attributes are in the node[:apt_mirror] namespace

Usage

WARNING: Mirroring Large Repos will of course make your chef run as long as it takes to download the repo.

Default attributes set to the apt_mirror defaults from the config file included with the package.

How to call in a recipe

apt_mirror_mirror "opscode_lucid_10" do
  action :create
  type "deb"
  url "http://apt.opscode.com/"
  distribution "lucid-0.10"
  components [ "main" ]
  clean "http://apt.opscode.com/"
  cron true
  schedule ({ :minute => "0", :hour => "0", :day => "1", :month => "1", :weekday
 => "*"}) # once a year on the first of the year at midnight
  docroot "/var/www/repos/chef"
end

###action create will

• create the apt-mirror config file based on the included template, using attributes defined.
• run apt-mirror as the user apt-mirror to install the repo based on the config file named.
• symlink to a specified location to make the repo web accessable
• schedule updates to the repo via the apt-mirror users crontab.

###action update will

• execue apt-mirror as teh apt-mirror user with the specified mirror config file

###action delete will

• remove the repo and all sub-dirs
• remove the symlink into your web accessable directory.
• remove the cron entry if a schedule was set
• remove the apt-mirror config file for the mirror specified

Suggested Use Pattern

databag named apt_mirrors with each entry in the databag being the repo you want to mirror

example data bag entry:

{
  "id": "mirror_name",
  "type": "<binary | source>",
  "url": "http://your.repo.com/",
  "distribution": "<distribution>",
  "components": [
	"component1",
	"component2"
   ]
}

iterate over each entry with a apt_mirror_mirror create action.

Dev Notes

Things Left to do

skip sections if not specified.

• schedule is not a hash check to see if it is set to false
• do not symlink if it is not specified

Useful Logging

Other error handling

Write OHAI plugin to determine package arch, initial target debian systems must extend for multi-platform.

* debian systems  - `dpkg --print-architecture`.chomp
* redhat systems - `uname -m`.chomp