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@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ Ubuntu support is lagging behind but not absent either. * the apt class has been moved to a paramterized class. if you were including this class before, after passing some variables, you will need to move to - instantiating the class with those variables instead. For example, if you + instantiating the class with those variables instead. For example, if you had the following in your manifests: $apt_debian_url = 'http://localhost:9999/debian/' $apt_use_next_release = true include apt - + you will need to remove the variables, and the include and instead do the following: @@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ Ubuntu support is lagging behind but not absent either. you will need to remove the variables, and the include and instead do the following: - + class { 'apt::listchanges': email => 'foo@example.com' } - + * the apt::proxy_client class has been moved to a paramterized class. if you were including this class before, after passing some variables, you will need to move to instantiating the class with those variables instead. For example, @@ -113,22 +113,6 @@ the site_apt modules' files directory that is named the same as the host. (example: site_apt/files/some.host.com/03clean, or site_apt/files/some.host.com/03clean_vserver) -Variables -========= - -$custom_sources_list --------------------- - -By default this module will use a basic apt/sources.list template with -a generic Debian mirror. If you need to set more specific sources, -(e.g. changing the sections included in the source, etc.) you can -override the default by passing $custom_sources_list argument to apt -class. For example: - - class { 'apt': - custom_sources_list => template('site_apt/sources.list') - } - Classes ======= @@ -146,9 +130,8 @@ Class parameters: * use_volatile - If this variable is set to true the Debian Volatile sources (until - Lenny) or CODENAME-updates (such as squeeze-updates, supported since - Squeeze) are added. + If this variable is set to true the CODENAME-updates sources (such as + squeeze-updates) are added. By default this is false for backward compatibility with older versions of this module. @@ -188,17 +171,17 @@ Class parameters: * disable_update - Disable "apt-get update" which is normally triggered by apt::upgrade_package - and apt::dist_upgrade. + Disable "apt-get update" which is normally triggered by apt::upgrade_package + and apt::dist_upgrade. - Note that nodes can be updated once a day by using + Note that nodes can be updated once a day by using APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; in i.e. /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80_apt_update_daily. * custom_preferences - Since Debian Lenny's version of APT doesn't support the use of the - preferences.d directory for putting fragments of 'preferences', this + For historical reasons (Debian Lenny's version of APT did not support the use + of the preferences.d directory for putting fragments of 'preferences'), this module will manage a default generic apt/preferences file with more recent releases pinned to very low values so that any package installation will not accidentally pull in packages from those suites @@ -213,6 +196,18 @@ Class parameters: apt/preferences file to be absent: class { 'apt': custom_preferences => false } + +* custom_sources_list + + By default this module will use a basic apt/sources.list template with + a generic Debian mirror. If you need to set more specific sources, + e.g. changing the sections included in the source, etc. you can set + this variable to the content that you desire to use instead. + + For example, setting this variable will pull in the + templates/site_apt/sources.list file: + + class { 'apt': custom_sources_list => template('site_apt/sources.list') } * codename @@ -339,7 +334,7 @@ the following parameterized variables, which can be changed: Example usage: class { 'apt::listchanges': email => 'foo@example.com' } - + apt::proxy_client ----------------- @@ -367,6 +362,17 @@ apt::unattended_upgrades If this class is included, it will install the package 'unattended-upgrades' and configure it to daily upgrade the system. +The class has the following parameters that you can use to change the contents +of the configuration file. The values shown here are the default values: + + * $config_content = undef + * $mailonlyonerror = true + * $mail_recipient = 'root' + * $blacklisted_packages = [] + +Note that using $config_content actually specifies all of the configuration +contents and thus makes the other parameters useless. + Defines ======= @@ -432,7 +438,7 @@ following in your manifest: apt::preseeded_package { locales: } -You can also specify the content of the seed via the content parameter, +You can also specify the content of the seed via the content parameter, for example: apt::preseeded_package { 'apticron': @@ -445,11 +451,13 @@ apt::sources_list Creates a file in the apt/sources.list.d directory to easily add additional apt sources. One can use either the 'source' meta-parameter to specify a list of static files to include from the puppet fileserver or the 'content' -meta-parameter to define content inline or with the help of a template. +meta-parameter to define content inline or with the help of a template. Ending +the resource name in '.list' is optional: it will be automatically added to the +file name if not present in the resource name. Example: - apt::sources_list { 'company_internals.list': + apt::sources_list { 'company_internals': source => [ "puppet:///modules/site_apt/${::fqdn}/company_internals.list", 'puppet:///modules/site_apt/company_internals.list' ], } |