Adding Packages to Your TemplateΒΆ

When defining your machine image you set the OS and profile. UForge automatically pulls in all the necessary packages required for the chosen OS. You do not need to list them seperately. However, you may want to add other packages to your machine image. These additional packages are listed in the pkgs section of your template.

Note

If the packages you choose to add to your template have any dependencies, all the required packages will be added automatically. You do not have to search and list all the dependencies in your template.

The following is a basic example for a CentOS 6.4 32-bit template with package for iotop added, when using YAML.

---
os:
  name: CentOS
  version: '6.4'
  arch: x86_64
  profile: Minimal
  pkgs:
        name: iotop

If you are using JSON:

{
    "os" : {
      "name" : "CentOS",
      "version" : "6.4",
      "arch" : "x86_64",
      "profile" : "Minimal"
      "pkgs" : {
        "name" : "iotop"
      }
    }
}