how to manage software sources with CFEngine3?

[Kyle Schrama]

I'm currently using cfengine to manage the installed packages on ubuntu, but there's a package that i need to install from a PPA rather than from the standard ubuntu repos.  Is there a "right" way to do this in CFEngine, or should i just be hacking together some promises on apt-key and the source.list file?

[Diego Zamboni]

There are no built-in mechanisms for specifying or adding repositories, but it should be as simple as promising contents for a file under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, or a line in /etc/apt/sources.list.

BTW, there's a sketch for that: https://github.com/cfengine/design-center/tree/master/sketches/package_management/aptrepo

--Diego

On Jan 9, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Kyle Schrama <nota...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm currently using cfengine to manage the installed packages on ubuntu, but there's a package that i need to install from a PPA rather than from the standard ubuntu repos.  Is there a "right" way to do this in CFEngine, or should i just be hacking together some promises on apt-key and the source.list file?

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[Nick Anderson]

I think there is a sketch for that.

Repository::apt::Maintain Manage deb repositories in
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ files or /etc/apt/sources.list

[Brian Bennett]

I managed a large environment (~500 systems) and we managed apt repositories with files promises. It could also be easily done with edit_line promises. So from a real world production environment, this works well.

After a copy or update set a class that will trigger an apt-get update.

For the apt keys, I would copy the key to a specific location then set a class that would trigger apt-key add. An alternative would be to copy the entire apt keyring (it's just an ordinary gnupg keyring), although I don't recommend that.

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Brian

[Kyle Schrama]

thanks for the help guys.  It's good to know i'm on the right track.