[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: CHEF-3747 - Compile Time Packages

[Bryan Berry < >]

big +1 for "phases"  or "stages"

forcing resources to execute during compile-time ultimately breaks
cookbook reusability

I think puppet may already have stages and I am curious how well those
work in practice. I have never used them.
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/2.7/reference/lang_run_stages.html

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Peter Donald 
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> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Sean OMeara 
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>> Compile time modification is a hack that should very much be discouraged.
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>> I'd rather see something akin to "run stages" where you could force
>> the convergence of a recipe before the compile phase of another.
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> +1
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> If a single chef run could be multiple stages, where each stage was a
> runlist and each stage compiled and converged before the next stage,  this
> would make my life a lot easier. For bonus points you could make it possible
> to run stages individually and suddenly application deploys would be much
> easier in chef.
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> --
> Cheers,
>
> Peter Donald