repository_mgmt

A role for deploying and configuring deb software sources list on Debian based distributions using Ansible.

Requirements

Supported targets:

• Ubuntu all
• Debian all

Role Variables

This roles comes preloaded with almost every available default. You can override each one in your hosts/group vars, in your inventory, or in your play. See the annotated defaults in defaults/main.yml for help in configuration. All provided variables start with deb__.

• deb__distribution - Distribution selected for source software installation. Default to {{ ansible_distribution }}. Options are ["Debian", "Ubuntu"].
• deb__release - Distribution release software suite. Default to {{ ansible_distribution_release }}. Can be override for release upgrade for example.
• deb__backports - Enable the backports repository. Only supported on stable distributions. Default: false.
• deb__updates - Enable the updates repository. Only supported on stable distributions. Default: false.
• deb__security - Enable the security repository. Only supported on stable distributions. Default: true.
• deb__ubuntu_universe - Enable the universe section of Ubuntu repositories. Default: true.
• deb__ubuntu_multiverse - Enable the multiverse section of Ubuntu repositories. Default: true.
• deb__clean_sources - Remove existing sources. Default is false, options are ["distribution", "all"]. "distribution" clean /etc/apt/sources.list whereas "all" clean all *.list found files.
• set_apt_proxy - Enable to set proxy for apt update. Default: false.
• debian_repos_url - url of debian repository. Default: http://deb.debian.org.
• ubuntu_repos_url - url of debian repository. Default: http://archive.ubuntu.com.
• um_repos - if set to true um repository will add to sources.list. Default: false and template(umRepo.list.j2) is commented.

Dependencies

• None

Extra

Callable tasks:

• update: Retrieve new list of packages (apt-get update)

Usage

Still to do

• Add option to add additional repositories (like zabbix)

Changelog

1.0

Initial version.

License

GPLv2

Author Information

Maryam Mayabi mayabi@um.ac.ir