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

[Luke Biddell < >]

I disagree. There's only 4 places it could be according to the docco. Saying the file could not be found and listing those places would be useful. It's an exceptional circumstance and should not happen very often at all - more information is better in this case.

Thanks for all the help and prompt responses.

On 5 October 2010 13:55, Thom May < "> > wrote:

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 < "> > wrote:
> 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 < "> > wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Thom, I'll check it out. It's somewhat misleading then that the
>> logging ties up.
>>
>> On 5 October 2010 10:57, Thom May < "> > 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 < "> >
>>> 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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