From 92ef96faff271ea81c2e549b9f21c5bcbba0e8a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: exploide Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:17:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] notes on distributions which do not ship certbot package --- README.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 277a135..e05050e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ By default, this role configures a cron job to run under the provided user accou ### Variables Relavant for Source Installation from Git +Instead of installing Certbot from distribution's package management, installing from Git repository is also an option. This might be useful in several cases, but especially when older LTS distributions don't ship Certbot yet. These include CentOS < 7, Ubuntu < 16.10 and Debian < 8. Debian 8 includes Certbot package when packports repository is enabled. + +In case source installation from Git is intended, the following variables are relevant: + certbot_install_from_source: yes certbot_repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot.git certbot_version: master