Normally I like to polish my code a bit before publishing but seeing as Fedora 21 is relatively new and a vacation is coming up which people might use as an opportunity to upgrade their home networks, I thought I’d throw this extremely *unpolished and kludgey* ansible playbook out there for others to experiment with:
When I recently looked at updating all of my systems to Fedora 21 I decided to try to be a little lighter on network bandwidth than I usually am (I’m on slow DSL and I have three kids all trying to stream video at the same time as I’m downloading packages). So I decided that I’d use a squid caching proxy to cache the packages that I was going to be installing since many of the packages would end up on all of my machines. I found a page on caching packages for use with mock and saw that there were a bunch of steps that I probably wouldn’t remember the next time I wanted to do this. So I opened up vim, translated the steps into an ansible playbook, and tried to run it.
First several times, it failed because there were unsolved dependencies in my packageset (packages I’d built locally with outdated dependencies, packages that were no longer available in Fedora 21, etc). Eventually I set the fedup steps to ignore errors so that the playbook would clean up all the configuration and I could fix the package dependency problems and then re-run the playbook immediately afterwards. I’ve now got it to the point where it will successfully run fedup in my environment and will cache many packages (something’s still using mirrors instead of the baseurl I specified sometimes but I haven’t tracked that down yet. Those packages are getting cached more than once).
Anyhow, feel free to take a look, modify it to suit your needs, and let me know of any “bugs” that you find 🙂
Things I’ll probably do to it for when I update to F22:
- Base my squid proxy setup on this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring/ProxyMirror instead of the mock document.
- Pull more of the hardcoded things into variables
- (?) Create a role for this (?)
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