proxy support for yum repo

[fuerer]

Hi

We are only allowed to access outside world over a webproxy, so it wouldb be great if the template for the repo file would have an option to define the proxy like
proxy=http://host.mydomain.com:proxyport

regards
patrik

[paulfantom]

Have you tried using http_proxy and https_proxy variables?

I don't want to implement features specific to one platform so proxy support should also work on debian and openSUSE.

[fuerer]

the problem is that we have internal yum repositories which are not reachable over the webproxy. so for external repos we set the proxy directive in the corresponding repo files.
alternative would be that I can disable the creation of the repo file and use my own.

[rockandska]

Too tired to do it now but want to let my thinking for whoever have time before me to do it or discuss it before implementing it:

• create a variable in defaults/main.yml

grafana_yum_repo_tpl: grafana.yum.repo.j2

• use this variable in the task file "install"
• if the user wants, it could create a personal template inside a directory "templates" at the same level of the playbook with a different name and override the variable grafana_yum_repo_tpl with this template name

Already use this kind of workflow in another roles

Regards,