The Yum cookbook exposes the yum_globalconfig resource which allows a user to control global yum behavior. This resources aims to allow the user to configure all options listed in the yum.conf man page, found at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/yum.conf.5.html

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• RHEL/CentOS and derivatives
• Fedora

• Chef 15.3+

• none

• yum_globalconfig
• dnf_module

• default - Configures yum_globalconfig[/etc/yum.conf] with values found in node attributes at node['yum']['main']

The following attributes are set by default

default['yum']['main']['cachedir'] = '/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever'
default['yum']['main']['keepcache'] = false
default['yum']['main']['debuglevel'] = nil
default['yum']['main']['exclude'] = nil
default['yum']['main']['logfile'] = '/var/log/yum.log'
default['yum']['main']['exactarch'] = nil
default['yum']['main']['obsoletes'] = nil
default['yum']['main']['installonly_limit'] = nil
default['yum']['main']['installonlypkgs'] = nil
default['yum']['main']['installroot'] = nil

For Amazon platform nodes, the default is to receive a continuous flow of updates,

default['yum']['main']['releasever'] = 'latest'

To lock existing instances to the current version of the Amazon AMI,

default['yum']['main']['releasever'] = ''

Recipes from older versions of this cookbook have been moved individual cookbooks. Recipes for managing platform yum configurations and installing specific repositories can be found in one (or more!) of the following cookbook.

• yum-centos
• yum-fedora
• yum-amazon
• yum-epel
• yum-elrepo
• yum-repoforge
• yum-ius
• yum-percona
• yum-pgdg

Put depends 'yum' in your metadata.rb to gain access to the yum_repository resource.

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