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yum_repository - Add and remove YUM repositories

New in version 2.1.

Synopsis

Add or remove YUM repositories in RPM-based Linux distributions.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
async
no yes
  • yes
  • no
If set to yes Yum will download packages and metadata from this repo in parallel, if possible.
bandwidth
no
Maximum available network bandwidth in bytes/second. Used with the throttle option.
If throttle is a percentage and bandwidth is 0 then bandwidth throttling will be disabled. If throttle is expressed as a data rate (bytes/sec) then this option is ignored. Default is 0 (no bandwidth throttling).
baseurl
no
URL to the directory where the yum repository's 'repodata' directory lives.
This or the mirrorlist parameter is required if state is set to present.
cost
no 1000
Relative cost of accessing this repository. Useful for weighing one repo's packages as greater/less than any other.
deltarpm_metadata_percentage
no 100
When the relative size of deltarpm metadata vs pkgs is larger than this, deltarpm metadata is not downloaded from the repo. Note that you can give values over 100, so 200 means that the metadata is required to be half the size of the packages. Use 0 to turn off this check, and always download metadata.
deltarpm_percentage
no 75
When the relative size of delta vs pkg is larger than this, delta is not used. Use 0 to turn off delta rpm processing. Local repositories (with file:// baseurl) have delta rpms turned off by default.
description
no
A human readable string describing the repository.
This parameter is only required if state is set to present.
enabled
no yes
  • yes
  • no
This tells yum whether or not use this repository.
enablegroups
no yes
  • yes
  • no
Determines whether yum will allow the use of package groups for this repository.
exclude
no
List of packages to exclude from updates or installs. This should be a space separated list. Shell globs using wildcards (eg. * and ?) are allowed.
The list can also be a regular YAML array.
failovermethod
no roundrobin
  • roundrobin
  • priority
roundrobin randomly selects a URL out of the list of URLs to start with and proceeds through each of them as it encounters a failure contacting the host.
priority starts from the first baseurl listed and reads through them sequentially.
file
no
File to use to save the repo in. Defaults to the value of name.
gpgcakey
no
A URL pointing to the ASCII-armored CA key file for the repository.
gpgcheck
no no
  • yes
  • no
Tells yum whether or not it should perform a GPG signature check on packages.
gpgkey
no
A URL pointing to the ASCII-armored GPG key file for the repository.
group
no
Name of the group that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown.
http_caching
no all
  • all
  • packages
  • none
Determines how upstream HTTP caches are instructed to handle any HTTP downloads that Yum does.
all means that all HTTP downloads should be cached.
packages means that only RPM package downloads should be cached (but not repository metadata downloads).
none means that no HTTP downloads should be cached.
include
no
Include external configuration file. Both, local path and URL is supported. Configuration file will be inserted at the position of the include= line. Included files may contain further include lines. Yum will abort with an error if an inclusion loop is detected.
includepkgs
no
List of packages you want to only use from a repository. This should be a space separated list. Shell globs using wildcards (eg. * and ?) are allowed. Substitution variables (e.g. $releasever) are honored here.
The list can also be a regular YAML array.
ip_resolve
no whatever
  • 4
  • 6
  • IPv4
  • IPv6
  • whatever
Determines how yum resolves host names.
4 or IPv4 - resolve to IPv4 addresses only.
6 or IPv6 - resolve to IPv6 addresses only.
keepalive
no no
  • yes
  • no
This tells yum whether or not HTTP/1.1 keepalive should be used with this repository. This can improve transfer speeds by using one connection when downloading multiple files from a repository.
keepcache
no 1
  • 0
  • 1
Either 1 or 0. Determines whether or not yum keeps the cache of headers and packages after successful installation.
metadata_expire
no 21600
Time (in seconds) after which the metadata will expire.
Default value is 6 hours.
metadata_expire_filter
no read-only:present
  • never
  • read-only:past
  • read-only:present
  • read-only:future
Filter the metadata_expire time, allowing a trade of speed for accuracy if a command doesn't require it. Each yum command can specify that it requires a certain level of timeliness quality from the remote repos. from "I'm about to install/upgrade, so this better be current" to "Anything that's available is good enough".
never - Nothing is filtered, always obey metadata_expire.
read-only:past - Commands that only care about past information are filtered from metadata expiring. Eg. yum history info (if history needs to lookup anything about a previous transaction, then by definition the remote package was available in the past).
read-only:present - Commands that are balanced between past and future. Eg. yum list yum.
read-only:future - Commands that are likely to result in running other commands which will require the latest metadata. Eg. yum check-update.
Note that this option does not override "yum clean expire-cache".
metalink
no
Specifies a URL to a metalink file for the repomd.xml, a list of mirrors for the entire repository are generated by converting the mirrors for the repomd.xml file to a baseurl.
mirrorlist
no
Specifies a URL to a file containing a list of baseurls.
This or the baseurl parameter is required if state is set to present.
mirrorlist_expire
no 21600
Time (in seconds) after which the mirrorlist locally cached will expire.
Default value is 6 hours.
mode
no
Mode the file or directory should be. For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal numbers (like 0644). Leaving off the leading zero will likely have unexpected results. As of version 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, u+rwx or u=rw,g=r,o=r).
name
yes
Unique repository ID.
This parameter is only required if state is set to present or absent.
owner
no
Name of the user that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown.
params
no
Option used to allow the user to overwrite any of the other options. To remove an option, set the value of the option to null.
password
no
Password to use with the username for basic authentication.
priority
no 99
Enforce ordered protection of repositories. The value is an integer from 1 to 99.
This option only works if the YUM Priorities plugin is installed.
protect
no no
  • yes
  • no
Protect packages from updates from other repositories.
proxy
no
URL to the proxy server that yum should use. Set to _none_ to disable the global proxy setting.
proxy_password
no
Username to use for proxy.
proxy_username
no
Password for this proxy.
repo_gpgcheck
no no
  • yes
  • no
This tells yum whether or not it should perform a GPG signature check on the repodata from this repository.
reposdir
no /etc/yum.repos.d
Directory where the .repo files will be stored.
retries
no 10
Set the number of times any attempt to retrieve a file should retry before returning an error. Setting this to 0 makes yum try forever.
s3_enabled
no no
  • yes
  • no
Enables support for S3 repositories.
This option only works if the YUM S3 plugin is installed.
selevel
no s0
Level part of the SELinux file context. This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the range. _default feature works as for seuser.
serole
no
Role part of SELinux file context, _default feature works as for seuser.
setype
no
Type part of SELinux file context, _default feature works as for seuser.
seuser
no
User part of SELinux file context. Will default to system policy, if applicable. If set to _default, it will use the user portion of the policy if available.
skip_if_unavailable
no no
  • yes
  • no
If set to yes yum will continue running if this repository cannot be contacted for any reason. This should be set carefully as all repos are consulted for any given command.
ssl_check_cert_permissions
no no
  • yes
  • no
Whether yum should check the permissions on the paths for the certificates on the repository (both remote and local).
If we can't read any of the files then yum will force skip_if_unavailable to be yes. This is most useful for non-root processes which use yum on repos that have client cert files which are readable only by root.
sslcacert
no
Path to the directory containing the databases of the certificate authorities yum should use to verify SSL certificates.
sslclientcert
no
Path to the SSL client certificate yum should use to connect to repos/remote sites.
sslclientkey
no
Path to the SSL client key yum should use to connect to repos/remote sites.
sslverify
no yes
  • yes
  • no
Defines whether yum should verify SSL certificates/hosts at all.
state
no present
  • absent
  • present
State of the repo file.
throttle
no
Enable bandwidth throttling for downloads.
This option can be expressed as a absolute data rate in bytes/sec. An SI prefix (k, M or G) may be appended to the bandwidth value.
timeout
no 30
Number of seconds to wait for a connection before timing out.
ui_repoid_vars
no releasever basearch
When a repository id is displayed, append these yum variables to the string if they are used in the baseurl/etc. Variables are appended in the order listed (and found).
unsafe_writes
(added in 2.2)
no
Normally this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target files, sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this. One example are docker mounted files, they cannot be updated atomically and can only be done in an unsafe manner.
This boolean option allows ansible to fall back to unsafe methods of updating files for those cases in which you do not have any other choice. Be aware that this is subject to race conditions and can lead to data corruption.
username
no
Username to use for basic authentication to a repo or really any url.

Examples

- name: Add repository
  yum_repository:
    name: epel
    description: EPEL YUM repo
    baseurl: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/$releasever/$basearch/

- name: Add multiple repositories into the same file (1/2)
  yum_repository:
    name: epel
    description: EPEL YUM repo
    file: external_repos
    baseurl: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/$releasever/$basearch/
    gpgcheck: no
- name: Add multiple repositories into the same file (2/2)
  yum_repository:
    name: rpmforge
    description: RPMforge YUM repo
    file: external_repos
    baseurl: http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el7/en/$basearch/rpmforge
    mirrorlist: http://mirrorlist.repoforge.org/el7/mirrors-rpmforge
    enabled: no

- name: Remove repository
  yum_repository:
    name: epel
    state: absent

- name: Remove repository from a specific repo file
  yum_repository:
    name: epel
    file: external_repos
    state: absent

#
# Allow to overwrite the yum_repository parameters by defining the parameters
# as a variable in the defaults or vars file:
#
# my_role_somerepo_params:
#   # Disable GPG checking
#   gpgcheck: no
#   # Remove the gpgkey option
#   gpgkey: null
#
- name: Add Some repo
  yum_repository:
    name: somerepo
    description: Some YUM repo
    baseurl: http://server.com/path/to/the/repo
    gpgkey: http://server.com/keys/somerepo.pub
    gpgcheck: yes
    params: "{{ my_role_somerepo_params }}"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here Common Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

name description returned type sample
repo repository name success string epel
state state of the target, after execution success string present

Notes

Note

All comments will be removed if modifying an existing repo file.

Note

Section order is preserved in an existing repo file.

Note

Parameters in a section are ordered alphabetically in an existing repo file.

Note

The repo file will be automatically deleted if it contains no repository.

This is an Extras Module

For more information on what this means please read Extras Modules

For help in developing on modules, should you be so inclined, please read Community Information & Contributing, developing_test_pr and Developing Modules.

© 2012–2016 Michael DeHaan
© 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/yum_repository_module.html