[chef-dev] Re: Re: Officially supported Opscode Homebrew provider

[Joseph Holsten < >]

Great for internal and one-off recipes, but I'm talking about writing a 
recipe that plays nice with both providers. For example, MacPorts and 
homebrew have different names for equivalent MySQL packages.

I essentially want to write:

case node.platform
when /mac_os_x/
  case node.provider[:package]
  when :homebrew
     ...
  when :macports
    ...
  end
when ...
end

--
http://josephholsten.com

On Apr 4, 2012, at 14:27, Jesse Nelson 
<
 >
 wrote:

> You can set the default provider you want by hand in a recipe early in
> the run list:
> Chef::Platform.platforms[:mac_os_x][:default][:package] =
> Chef::Provider::Package::Macports
> 
> or use the resource directly:
>  macports_package "foo"
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Joseph Holsten 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>> On a related note, is there a good way to branch on package provider? I'd
>> like to maintain MacPorts support, even if I'm the only one using it.
>> 
>> --
>> http://josephholsten.com
>> 
>> On Apr 3, 2012, at 5:59, Jamie Winsor 
>> <
 >
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> There was talk before Chef 0.10 about adding a Homebrew package provider to
>> Chef - it can be found in this
>> ticket: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-1250
>> 
>> It seems that the introduction of the chef-homebrew cookbook (found
>> here: https://github.com/mathie/chef-homebrew) was deemed the solution and
>> this ticket was marked 'fixed'.
>> 
>> Homebrew has grown in popularity quite a bit. I'd like to open the
>> discussion back up again about potentially adding a Homebrew provider to
>> Chef core. This doesn't need to be the default provider for package on OSX
>> as CHEF-1250 suggests.
>> 
>> Alternatively, if a Homebrew provider in Chef core isn't what the community
>> wants, maybe we should have an officially supported Homebrew LWRP in
>> opscode-cookbooks. The chef-homebrew project on Github hasn't been updated
>> in quite some time and has a number of pristine pull requests waiting to be
>> merged in. Some of them are pretty old, like this one from
>> Seth https://github.com/mathie/chef-homebrew/pull/2.
>> 
>> I will perform the work either way we choose.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> --
>> Jamie Winsor
>> @resetexistence
>> https://github.com/reset
>>