system-config/playbooks/roles/base-server
Ian Wienand d232403e79 base-server: disable install of suggests and recommends packages
The options to disable installing suggests and recommended packages
has been in diskimage-builder based images for a long time [1].
However we have no setting for it in our base-server role, meaning
that when launching nodes from cloud-provider images we can be out of
sync on this option.

I6d69ac0bd2ade95fede33c5f82e7df218da9458b is an example where packages
pulled in by suggestions can fail (arguably a packaging issue, but
anyway...)

By enabling this here, we make our control plane servers homogenous
with our diskimage-builder based testing nodes, which is better for
general sanity.  Overall it gives us more control over what's
installed.

[1] https://opendev.org/openstack/diskimage-builder/src/branch/master/diskimage_builder/elements/dpkg/pre-install.d/00-disable-apt-recommends

As I6d69ac0bd2ade95fede33c5f82e7df218da9458b showed, installing
suggested or recommended packages might result in

Change-Id: Id6dcc158944a46fc0ae03b6f1ff372dacd67c2e6
2019-07-31 16:21:08 +10:00
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defaults Use systemd-timesyncd on Bionic 2019-06-14 13:06:24 +10:00
files base-server: disable install of suggests and recommends packages 2019-07-31 16:21:08 +10:00
handlers Manage sshd config with ansible 2018-08-20 11:26:38 -05:00
tasks base-server: disable install of suggests and recommends packages 2019-07-31 16:21:08 +10:00
templates Remove ssh v1 options from sshd_config 2018-09-20 09:11:26 -05:00
vars Install GNU Privacy Guard on Gitea servers 2019-07-24 15:46:50 +00:00
README.rst Allow Zuul to log into bridge 2018-09-12 10:20:26 -06:00

README.rst

Basic common server configuration

Role Variables