CHANGELOG.md

yum Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the yum cookbook.

Unreleased

7.4.18 - 2024-07-15

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

7.4.17 - 2024-05-02

7.4.16 - 2024-05-02

7.4.15 - 2023-09-28

7.4.14 - 2023-09-28

7.4.13 - 2023-04-17

7.4.12 - 2023-04-07

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

7.4.11 - 2023-04-01

7.4.10 - 2023-04-01

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

7.4.9 - 2023-03-20

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

7.4.8 - 2023-03-18

• Update gaurav-nelson/github-action-markdown-link-check action to v1.0.15
• Fix yaml

7.4.7 - 2023-03-15

• Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

7.4.6 - 2023-02-27

• remove circleci

7.4.5 - 2023-02-23

• Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

7.4.4 - 2023-02-16

• Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

7.4.3 - 2023-02-15

• Update Actions

7.4.2 - 2023-02-15

• Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

7.4.1 - 2022-12-08

• Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

7.4.0 - 2022-05-09

• Add support for DNF property best
• Add support for DNF property skip_if_unavailable
• Add support for DNF property excludepkgs

7.3.2 - 2022-02-02

7.3.1 - 2022-01-27

• Add testing for Alma Linux and Rocky Linux
• Remove testing for CentOS 8 (prefer Stream instead)

7.3.0 - 2022-01-07

• Add flush_cache option to dnf_module

7.2.1 - 2021-12-21

• Fix version comparison in dnf_module supported check

7.2.0 - 2021-09-29

• Add dnf_module resource for managing DNF modules on RHEL 8+ / Fedora

7.1.0 - 2021-08-29

• Add support for DNF (Yum v4) property install_weak_deps (#193)

7.0.1 - 2021-08-26

• Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management (#191)

7.0.0 - 2021-08-13

• Enable unified_mode for Chef 17 compatibility
• Remove deprecated dnf_yum_compat recipe

6.1.1 - 2021-06-01

6.1.0 - 2021-03-24

• complete ip_resolve additions started in 6.0.0

6.0.0 - 2021-01-20

• Sous Chefs Adoption
• Cookstyle fixes
• Various testing fixes
• Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management
• Adding proper distroverpkg assignment for Oracle Linux
• Require 13+
• Remove RHEL5 references
• Mark dnf_yum_compat recipe deprecated
• Add EL8 support

5.1.0 (2017-08-04)

• Avoid spec deprecation warnings
• Use an empty string releasever to lock an Amazon Linux AMI to its current verison

5.0.1 (2017-04-06)

• Switch from Rake testing to Local Delivery
• Rename kitchen-docker to kitchen-dokken
• Update apache2 license string
• use true/false vs. TrueClass and FalseClass in the resource

5.0.0 (2017-02-12)

Breaking changes

• Removed the yum_repository resource and instead require chef-client 12.14 or later, which has the yum repository functionality built in. This resolves Chef 13 compatibility warnings for any cookbook with the yum cookbook.

Other changes

• Convert yum_globalconfig from an LWRP to a custom resource

4.2.0 (2017-02-12)

• Make cache in the DNF compat recipe
• Fix fastestmirror_enabled.
• Require Chef 12.1 not 12.0
• Convert to Inspec

4.1.0 (2016-10-21)

• Purge yum cache before removing a repo not after

4.0.0 (2016-09-06)

• Remove support for Chef 11

3.13.0 (2016-09-06)

• Add deprecation warning for add/remove actions, which were replaced with create/delete in Yum 3.0
• Remove support for Chef 10

v3.12.0 (2016-08-25)

• Fixing baseurl to support multiple urls
• Modify releasever attribute for Amazon to match Amazon's default policy for releasever

v3.11.0 (2016-06-01)

• Install yum at compile time in the dnf compatibility recipe
• Add IBM zlinux as a supported platform in the metadata
• Use cookstyle instead of rubocop to provide a consistent linting experience

v3.10.0 (2016-02-04)

• Add a new sensitive attribute to the repository resource so prevent writing the diff of the config to Chef output / logs
• Update testing dependencies and remove the Guardfile / Guard dependencies

v3.9.0 (2016-01-14)

• Added dnf_yum_compat recipe to ensure yum is installed on Fedora systems for Chef package resource compatibility. This will no longer be necessary when native dnf package support ships in chef-client.

v3.8.2 (2015-10-28)

• #141 - Replace clean_headers with clean_metadata

v3.8.1 (2015-10-28)

• Fixing up Chef13 deprecation warnings

v3.8.0 (2015-10-13)

• adding clean_headers boolean property to yum_resource
• restoring Chef 10 backwards compat for the sake of ChefSpec
• (unique resource names needed to avoid cloning)
• Fixing localpkg_gpgcheck values

v3.7.1 (2015-09-08)

• #135 - reverting "yum clean headers" as it breaks dnf compat

v3.7.0 (2015-09-05)

• Adding deltarpm toggle
• Cleaning 'headers' rather than 'all'

v3.6.3 (2015-07-13)

• Normalizing sslverify option rendering behavior
• Setting default value on the resource to nil
• Explictly setting string to render in template if value is supplied
• Behavior should default to "True", per man page

v3.6.2 (2015-07-13)

• Adding -y to makecache, to import key when repo_gpgcheck = true.
• Accepting Integer value for max_retries

v3.6.1 (2015-06-04)

• Executing yum clean before makecache
• Adding repo_gpgcheck

v3.6.0 (2015-04-23)

• Adding "yum clean" before "yum makecache" in yum_repository :create
• Adding why_run support to yum_globalconfig

v3.5.4 (2015-04-07)

• Changing tolerant config line to stringified integer

v3.5.3 (2015-01-16)

• Adding reposdir to globalconfig template

v3.5.2 (2014-12-24)

• Fixing redhat-release detection for Redhat 7

v3.5.1 (2014-11-24)

• Reverting management of ca-certificates because EL5 was broken

v3.5.0 (2014-11-24)

• Adding management of ca-certificates package to yum_repository provider

v3.4.1 (2014-10-29)

• Run yum-makecache only_if new_resource.enabled
• Allow setting of reposdir in global yum config and man page
• Change default 'obsoletes' behavior to match yum defaults

v3.4.0 (2014-10-15)

• Dynamically generate the new_resource attributes

v3.3.2 (2014-09-11)

• Fix globalconfig resource param for http_caching

v3.3.1 (2014-09-04)

• Fix issue with sslverify if set to false
• Add fancy badges

v3.3.0 (2014-09-03)

• Adding tuning attributes for all supported resource parameters
• Adding options hash parameter
• Adding (real) rhel-6.5 and centos-7.0 to test-kitchen coverage
• Updating regex for mirror_expire and mirrorlist_expire to include /^\d+[mhd]$/
• Updating README so keepcache reflects reality (defaults to false)
• Changing 'obsoletes' behavior in globalconfig resource to match
• default behavior. (now defaults to nil, yum defaults to false)
• Adding makecache action to repository resource
• Adding mode parameter to repository resource. Defaults to '0644'.

v3.2.4 (2014-08-20)

• #82 - Adding a makecache parameter

v3.2.2 (2014-06-11)

• #77 - Parameter default to be Trueclass instead of "1"

• #78 - add releasever parameter

v3.2.0 (2014-04-09)

• [COOK-4510] - Adding username and password parameters to node attributes
• [COOK-4518] - Fix Scientific Linux distroverpkg

v3.1.6 (2014-03-27)

• [COOK-4463] - support multiple GPG keys
• [COOK-4364] - yum_repository delete action fails

v3.1.4 (2014-03-12)

• [COOK-4417] Expand test harness to encompass 32-bit boxes

v3.1.2 (2014-02-23)

Fixing bugs around :delete action and cache clean Fixing specs to cover :remove and :delete aliasing properly Adding Travis-ci build matrix bits

v3.1.0 (2014-02-13)

• Updating testing harness for integration testing on Travis-ci
• Adding TESTING.md and Guardfile
• PR #67 - Add skip_if_unvailable repository option
• PR #64 - Fix validation of 'metadata_expire' option to match documentation
• [COOK-3591] - removing node.name from repo template rendering
• [COOK-4275] - Enhancements to yum cookbook
• Adding full spec coverage
• Adding support for custom source template to yum_repository

v3.0.8 (2014-01-27)

Fixing typo in default.rb. yum_globalconfig now passes proxy attribute correctly.

v3.0.6 (2014-01-27)

Updating default.rb to consume node['yum']['main']['proxy']

v3.0.4 (2013-12-29)

Bug

• COOK-4156 - yum cookbook creates a yum.conf with "cachefir" directive

v3.0.2

Updating globalconfig provider for Chef 10 compatability

v3.0.0

3.0.0 Major rewrite with breaking changes. Recipes broken out into individual cookbooks yum_key resource has been removed yum_repository resource now takes gpgkey as a URL directly yum_repository actions have been reduced to :create and :delete 'name' has been changed to repositoryid to avoid ambiguity chefspec test coverage gpgcheck is set to 'true' by default and must be explicitly disabled

v2.4.4

Reverting to Ruby 1.8 hash syntax.

v2.4.2

[COOK-3275] LWRP repository.rb :add method fails to create yum repo in some cases which causes :update to fail Amazon rhel

v2.4.0

Improvement

• [COOK-3025] - Allow per-repo proxy definitions

v2.3.4

Improvement

• COOK-3689 - Fix warnings about resource cloning
• COOK-3574 - Add missing "description" field in metadata

v2.3.2

Bug

• COOK-3145 - Use correct download URL for epel key_url

v2.3.0

New Feature

• [COOK-2924]: Yum should allow type setting in repo file

v2.2.4

Bug

• [COOK-2360]: last commit to yum_repository changes previous behaviour
• [COOK-3015]: Yum cookbook test minitest to fail

v2.2.2

Improvement

• [COOK-2946]: update tests, test kitchen support in yum cookbook

Bug

• [COOK-2639]: Yum cookbook - epel - always assumes url is a mirror list
• [COOK-2663]: Yum should allow metadata_expire setting in repo file
• [COOK-2751]: Update yum.ius_release version to 1.0-11

v2.2.0

• [COOK-2189] - yum::ius failed on install (caused from rpm dependency)
• [COOK-2196] - Make includepkgs and exclude configurable for each repos
• [COOK-2244] - Allow configuring caching using attributes
• [COOK-2399] - yum cookbook LWRPs fail FoodCritic
• [COOK-2519] - Add priority option to Yum repo files
• [COOK-2593] - allow integer or string for yum priority
• [COOK-2643] - don't use conditional attribute for yum_key remote_file

v2.1.0

• [COOK-2045] - add remi repository recipe
• [COOK-2121] - add :create action to yum_repository

v2.0.6

• [COOK-2037] - minor style fixes
• [COOK-2038] - updated README

v2.0.4

• [COOK-1908] - unable to install repoforge on CentOS 6 32 bit

v2.0.2

• [COOK-1758] - Add default action for repository resource

v2.0.0

This version changes the behavior of the EPEL recipe (most commonly used in other Chef cookbooks) on Amazon, and removes an attribute, node['yum']['epel_release']. See the README for details.

• [COOK-1772] - Simplify management of EPEL with LWRP

v1.0.0

mirrorlist in the yum_repository LWRP must be set to the mirror list URI to use rather than setting it to true. See README.md.

• [COOK-1088] - use dl.fedoraproject.org for EPEL to prevent redirects
• [COOK-1653] - fix mirrorlist
• [COOK-1710] - support http proxy
• [COOK-1722] - update IUS version

v0.8.2

• [COOK-1521] - add :update action to yum_repository

v0.8.0

• [COOK-1204] - Make 'add' default action for yum_repository
• [COOK-1351] - option to not make the yum cache (via attribute)
• [COOK-1353] - x86_64 centos path fixes
• [COOK-1414] - recipe for repoforge

v0.6.2

• Updated README to remove git diff artifacts.

v0.6.0

• Default action for the yum_repository LWRP is now add.
• [COOK-1227] - clear Chefs internal cache after adding new yum repo
• [COOK-1262] - yum::epel should enable existing repo on Amazon Linux
• [COOK-1272], [COOK-1302] - update RPM file for CentOS / RHEL 6
• [COOK-1330] - update cookbook documentation on excludes for yum
• [COOK-1346] - retry remote_file for EPEL in case we get an FTP mirror

v0.5.2

• [COOK-825] - epel and ius remote_file should notify the rpm_package to install

v0.5.0

• [COOK-675] - add recipe for handling EPEL repository
• [COOK-722] - add recipe for handling IUS repository

v.0.1.2

• Remove yum update in default recipe, that doesn't update caches, it updates packages installed.