{"id":1006,"date":"2014-10-30T14:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T20:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2014-10-30T14:19:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T20:19:28","slug":"saltstack-rpm-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/saltstack-rpm-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"SaltStack RPM archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

SaltStack<\/a> is a great infrastructure management tool. I don’t always want to use the latest version, so it’s useful to know where to download older releases. The problem is that using EPEL<\/a> to install it on CentOS\/RHEL systems only offers the latest version.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, it’s possible to download old RPM packages from the following URLs — thanks to “forrest” on the SaltStack IRC channel for digging up this information.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/koji.fedoraproject.org\/koji\/packageinfo?packageID=13129
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

\nhttps:\/\/kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org\/packages\/salt\/<\/a><\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

Here’s how I’ve upgrade my salt infrastructure:<\/p>\n

– Make a backup of the salt-master
\n– Upgrade the salt master
\n– Install the ‘at’ package on all minions (my minions are linux)
\n – salt ‘*’ pkg.install at
\n– Enable and start the at service
\n – salt ‘*’ service.enable atd
\n – salt ‘*’ service.start atd
\n– Run a script
\n – Copy and paste the code below into your salt directory, typically \/srv\/salt\/upgrade_minion.sh
\n – salt ‘*’ cmd.script salt:\/\/upgrade_minion.sh timeout=15<\/p>\n

Here’s the script. Note: It would be safer (and faster) to download from a trusted internal HTTP server.<\/p>\n

\t#!\/bin\/bash
\n\tVERSION=$(salt-minion –version | awk ‘{print $2}’)<\/p>\n

\tcd \/root
\n\tif [ X$VERSION != ‘2014.1.7’ ] ; then
\n\t\t\techo “upgrading `date`”
\n\t\t\tset -e
\n\t\t\tcurl https:\/\/kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org\/packages\/salt\/2014.1.7\/3.el6\/noarch\/salt-2014.1.7-3.el6.noarch.rpm -o salt-2014.1.7-3.el6.noarch.rpm
\n\t\t\tcurl https:\/\/kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org\/packages\/salt\/2014.1.7\/3.el6\/noarch\/salt-minion-2014.1.7-3.el6.noarch.rpm -o salt-minion-2014.1.7-3.el6.noarch.rpm
\n\t\t\tsha1sum salt-2014.1.7-3.el6.noarch.rpm
\n\t\t\tsha1sum salt-minion-2014.1.7-3.el6.noarch.rpm
\n\t\t\techo ‘\/etc\/init.d\/salt-minion stop ; \/bin\/rm -rf \/var\/cache\/salt ; truncate -s 0 \/var\/log\/salt\/minion ; rpm -Uhv \/root\/salt*2014.1.7-3*rpm ; \/etc\/init.d\/salt-minion start’ | at now
\n\telse
\n\t\t\techo “Already upgraded to $VERSION”
\n\tfi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SaltStack is a great infrastructure management tool. I don’t always want to use the latest version, so it’s useful to know where to download older releases. The problem is that using EPEL to install it on CentOS\/RHEL systems only offers the latest version. Fortunately, it’s possible to download old RPM packages from the following URLs … <\/p>\n

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