mysql_yumrepo

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Module Description
3. Setup
4. Usage
5. Credits

Overview

The mysql_yumrepo module installs the MySQL Community YUM repository on RHEL variants including Fedora and SuSE Linux.

Module description

MySQL Community repositories allow users to get access to the latest MySQL Community releases from Oracle, regardless of their OS version. This module only focuses on systems which use the YUM package manager, ie. RHEL variants and SuSE Linux.

The following repositories will be enabled by default:

• mysql-connectors-community
• mysql-tools-community
• mysql56-community

One can also enable these extra repositories:

• mysql55-community
• mysql57-community-dmr
• mysql-connectors-community-source
• mysql-tools-community-source
• mysql55-community-source
• mysql56-community-source
• mysql57-community-dmr-source

Setup

mysql_yumrepo will affect the following parts of your system:

• MySQL Community YUM repositories
• MySQL GPG key

Including the main class is enough to get started. It will install the MySQL Community repositories described above.

include ::mysql_yumrepo

A couple of examples

Also enable the 'source' repository for MySQL 5.6

class { '::mysql_yumrepo':
  enable_56_src => 1
}

Disable the GPG signature check

class { '::mysql_yumrepo':
  …
  gpgcheck => 0
}

Usage

Class: mysql_yumrepo

Primary class and entry point of the module.

Parameters within mysql_yumrepo:

gpgcheck

Switch to perform or not GPG signature checks on repository packages. Defaults to '1'

enable_connectors

Enable MySQL Connectors repository. Defaults to '1'

enable_tools

Enable MySQL tools repository. Defaults to '1'

Note: not available on EL 5

enable_55

Enable MySQL 5.5 repository. Defaults to '0'

Note: only available on EL >= 6

enable_56

Enable MySQL 5.6 repository. Defaults to '1'

enable_57

Enable MySQL 5.7 repository. Defaults to '0'

Note: MySQL 5.7 is currently in development. For use at your own risk.

enable_connectors_src

Enable MySQL Connectors source repository. Defaults to '0'

enable_tools_src

Enable MySQL tools source repository. Defaults to '0'

Note: not available on EL 5

enable_55_src

Enable MySQL 5.5 source repository. Defaults to '0'

Note: only available on EL >= 6

enable_56_src

Enable MySQL 5.6 source repository. Defaults to '0'

enable_57_src

Enable MySQL 5.7 source repository. Defaults to '0'

Credits

The rpm_gpg_key defined type was reused from the 'epel' module by Michael Stahnke (stahnma).

Features request and contributions are always welcome!