[chef] Custom resources and providers

[Niall Napier < >]

Hi,

I use Mercurial to manage my software repositories and would like to deploy them with Chef. I have been unable to find any information about this online and I have found limited documentation that explains how to roll your own Resources and Providers. 

Is it possible to write a Provider/Resource that implements SCM and is part of a chef cookbook rather than the installed chef package? I found the following page on the Opscode wiki http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Providers but it suggests that implementing a Provider should be integrated into the chef package.

Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Niall Napier
London, United Kingdom
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