Puppet users - Feb 2011 - force the file name of a yumrepo created file

Hi list,

Before I raise a feature request, is there a way to force the name of
the .repo file a yumrepo is created in? By default if no existing repo
exists, the file name that gets created for it is $name.repo. It would
be nice if you could specify the file name, for example on CentOS
systems you could force the filename of the [base] and [updates] repo
to be CentOS-Base.repo.

This only becomes a problem if say Puppet was repairing missing Yum
repos and recreated [base] as /etc/yum.repos.d/base.repo. Update the
RPM centos-release and now you''ve got two repositories named [base].

Thanks,

-Luke

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On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 01:34, luke.bigum <luke.bigum@fasthosts.co.uk>
wrote:
> Before I raise a feature request, is there a way to force the name of
> the .repo file a yumrepo is created in?
Nope, sorry.  The code doesn''t support that at this time.  Fixing it
wouldn''t be terribly hard, and as long as the default behaviour was
identical to today you should be OK, I think.  You would have to
supply appropriate tests, though, to make sure that multiple repos
with the same filename worked as desired.

Personally, we took the approach of explicitly defining the repos we
wanted the puppet way, and using the trick of putting a recursive file
overlay on the repos.d directory, from an empty directory, and
removing anything that wasn''t managed by puppet.

That gets you what you expect, and prevents package updates tromping
all over your careful configuration.

Regards,
    Daniel
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