[chef-dev] RE: Regarding MySQL cookbook

["Kadel-Garcia, Nico" < >]

Easy answer: Register the machine first.

Harder  but even better  effective answer: You can use the "yum" cookbook to 
set up pointers to an internal mirror of the RHRL yum repository, created and 
maintained with the "reposync" tool. It requires a host registered with the 
correct version of RHEL, and a web server pointed to the resulting 
repository. This has notable benefits. You can also save a great deal of 
unnecessary bandwidth doing the chef "yum-makecache" commands against a 
remote RHEL registered repository. Yum uses a quite bulky "repodata" which 
updates frequently, and it's an expensive chunk of bandwidth to be burning 
every night from RHEL's main servers across a big set of machines.

Simpler answer: use CentOS or Scientifici Linux. Local mirror repository is 
optional, but still helpful, and can be updated with "rsync" commands.

Ask privately and I'll send you copies of some public tools.

--
Nico Kadel-Garcia
Senior Systems Consultant
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Cell Phone: +1.339.368.2428

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Subject: [chef-dev] Regarding MySQL cookbook

Hi,

I'm trying to run MySQL cookbook on an RHEL instance which is not yet
subscribed. As a result the cookbook is unable to download the mysql files 
from
the yum repo.
Is there any other cookbook which downloads files from locations other than 
the
yum repo?

Thanks in advance.