[chef] Working with binary cookbook_file files

[Luke Biddell < >]

I'm building a custom jetty cookbook to deploy some internal software here.

That software using jni so I have to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and bundle some .so files for linux.

I've added my .so files to cookbook/files/linux-i686/libblah.so

In my recipe I refer to them like this...

cookbook_file "#{node[:jetty][:libraries_path]}/libblah.so" do

  source "#{node[:os]}-#{node[:kernel][:machine]}/libblah.so"

end

...and I do "knife cookbook upload custom-jetty.

If I go to the admin console on the chef server, I don't see files listed under the cookbook, I only see "Attribute Files", "Recipe Files" and "Template Files".

On the machine that's running the chef-client, when my custom-jetty cookbook runs, I get the error...

    ERROR: Re-raising exception: Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound - cookbook custom-jetty does not contain file files/linux-i686/libblah.so

The path looks good to me, so I need to start digging. Where in the chef server internals should I look to confirm that the files have uploaded correctly?

Thanks for any help you can give.