[chef] Re: Re: Re: Working with binary cookbook_file files

[Thom May < >]

I guess it's somewhat tricky in that it might not be default, and
listing all the
things it /could/ be would be rather sucky.

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 13:43, Luke Biddell 
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> Yup - that was it. Thanks Thom.
> Shame the logging doesn't include the default part of the path so you know
> you've fallen through the conditions and not matched. ie
> ERROR: Re-raising exception: Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound -
> cookbook custom-jetty does not contain file
> files/default/linux-i686/libblah.so
>
> Then you'd have a clue. RTFM though, fair enough.
>
> On 5 October 2010 13:20, Luke Biddell 
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>> Thanks Thom, I'll check it out. It's somewhat misleading then that the
>> logging ties up.
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>> On 5 October 2010 10:57, Thom May 
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>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> while I hate to unload a wiki link on you,
>>> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Files pretty much tells you all
>>> you need to know. :)
>>> (you need to put the files in files/default, not files)
>>> -Thom
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:43, Luke Biddell 
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>>> wrote:
>>> > 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.
>>> >
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