auto-update Cookbook

This cookbook keeps your system updated. Important: Use this cookbook very carefully! Updates may casue unwanted changes and system failures.

Requirements

Platforms

The recipes work on the following tested platforms:

• Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04
• CentOS 6.5

It may work on other platforms or versions of the above platforms with or without modification.

packages

• apt - apt has already implemented the auto-update function for the Debian family

Attributes

auto-update::default

• default['auto-update']['enabled'] - Auto update is disabled by default. It must be explicitly set true in order to work.
• default['auto-update']['stamp_file'] - Location of the stamp file in Red Hat family.
• default['auto-update']['interval'] - Minimum interval between updates.

Usage

auto-update::default

Include auto-update in the run_list of the node or in the target environment and set to true
the ['auto-update']['enabled'] attribute.

License & Authors

• Author:: Sandor Acs (acs.sandor@sztaki.mta.hu)
• Author:: Mark Gergely (gergely.mark@sztaki.mta.hu)

Copyright 2014, MTA SZTAKI

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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