[chef] Re: How does a definition know which file or template to use?

[Seth Falcon < >]

Hi Jono,

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:10 PM,  
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 wrote:
> I have a definition that uses several files and templates to build a
> tomcat base skeleton. When I call the definition from a recipe in
> another cookbook it can not find the files nor templates as it is
> looking in the callers cookbooks instead of the definitions.
>
> Can I direct the definition to look in the correct place or is there an
> idiomatically chef way of accomplishing this?

I think you want to specify the cookbook parameter in the resources in
your definition.

E.g.

    define :mydef do
      template "/opt/so/and/so" do
        # stuff
        cookbook "mydef"
      end
    end

Does that help?  You might look at the runit cookbook in the Opscode
cookbooks repo
for an example of using (rather involved) definitions.

+ seth