Excluding Repositories¶
By default, SIMP applies updates from all available repositories on a nightly basis. This ensures that bug fixes and security updates are applied to all systems without minute management in Puppet manifests. This section provides guidance on how to include or exclude specific repositories from nightly YUM updates.
Methodology¶
The common::yum_schedule::repos
and common::yum_schedule::disable
variables in the pupmod-common module control which repositories are
enabled for nightly updating. Both variables must be specified in array
format.
common::yum_schedule::repos
is used to specify an array of
repositories from which updates are provided; no other repositories will
be used.
common::yum_schedule::disable
is used to specify an array of
repositories from which updates are not provided; all other repositories
will be used.