[chef] Re: Is attribute values combination accross cookbooks possible?

[Joshua Timberman < >]

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Hello!

We actually added a helper method to allow better management of this  
with CHEF-607:

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-607

So you can include another cookbooks attributes file to make sure that  
the attributes there are available in the current cookbook.

On Jan 29, 2010, at 2:44 AM, Ares wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've got two cookbooks, one is for managing firewall and second is  
> for let's
> say apache for example. Firewall cookbook defines attribute :ports  
> which is an
> array of ports that should be open.
>
> Is there any way how apache can add it's :listen_port to array  
> of :ports? It
> should first verify, that attribute :ports exists then check whether  
> the port
> is already in array and finally add it if it's missing.
>
> Thanks for any reply
>
> ares

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