yum-plex Cookbook

The yum-plex cookbook takes over management of the default repositoryids that ship with CentOS systems. It allows attribute manipulation of plex

Requirements

Platforms

• RHEL/CentOS and derivatives
• Fedora

Chef

• Chef 11+

Cookbooks

• yum version 3.2.0 or higher
• yum-epel

Attributes

The following attributes are set by default

default['yum']['plex']['repositoryid'] = 'plex'
default['yum']['plex']['enabled'] = true
default['yum']['plex']['managed'] = true
default['yum']['plex']['gpgkey'] = 'https://plex.tv/plex_pub_key.pub'
default['yum']['plex']['gpgcheck'] = true
default['yum']['plex']['description'] = 'Plex Media Server Repository'
default['yum']['plex']['baseurl'] = 'http://plex.r.worldssl.net/PlexMediaServer/fedora-repo/release/$basearch/'

Recipes

• default - Walks through node attributes and feeds a yum_resource
• parameters. The following is an example a resource generated by the
• recipe during compilation.

  yum_repository 'plex' do
    baseurl 'http://plex.r.worldssl.net/PlexMediaServer/fedora-repo/release/$basearch/'
    description 'Plex Media Server Repository'
    enabled true
    gpgcheck true
    gpgkey 'https://plex.tv/plex_pub_key.pub'
  end

Usage Example

To disable the plex repository through a Role or Environment definition

default_attributes(
  'yum' => {
    'plex' => {
      'enabled' => false
    }
  }
)

More Examples

Point the base and debuginfo repositories at an internally hosted server.

node.default['yum']['plex']['enabled'] = true
node.default['yum']['plex']['baseurl'] = 'https://internal.example.com/centos/6/os/x86_64'
node.default['yum']['plex']['sslverify'] = false

include_recipe 'yum-plex'

License & Authors

Author: Eric Renfro (psi-jack@linux-help.org)

Copyright: 2016, Linux-Help.org.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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