[chef] Re: Re: Overriding parts of recipes?

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

Ohai!
We now have support for vendoring cookbooks integrated into knife.
This lets you maintain your changes to a cookbook as a small patch,
handled by your SCM (git only for now AFAIK) while still fetching
changes from the upstream. Have a look at `knife cookbook site vendor`

HTH,
Dan DeLeo

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Ho-Sheng Hsiao
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 wrote:
> You could create a site-tomcat6 cookbook in which the recipe there
> include_recipe(:tomcat) to include it.
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> I personally would not want to have an implicit merge for cookbooks.
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> -Hosh
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> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Chad Woolley 
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>  wrote:
>> I need to override the tomcat6 recipe to disable a single line:
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>> http://github.com/opscode/cookbooks/blob/master/tomcat6/recipes/default.rb#L192
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>> How should I go about this?  I tried this and failed:
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>> 1. I have my custom cookbooks in the cookbook_path after the opscode 
>> version
>> 2. I created a 'tomcat6' cookbook in my custom cookbooks, which only
>> override this single template entry in the default recipe
>>
>> However, this doesn't work, because it doesn't seem to process the
>> main opscode version before mine.  Is it possible to "merge" them to
>> have all the logic from the original with only my override, THEN run
>> it?
>>
>> My only option now seems to be to clone the entire opscode original
>> cookbook into my custom cookbooks and disable that one line, which
>> seems less than optimal.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -- Chad
>>
>> P.S.  When googling I found this, but it doesn't answer my problem:
>> http://support.scalarium.com/faqs/custom-instance-setup/how-to-override-templates-in-custom-chef-recipes
>>
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