[chef] Re: Re: Re: Chef-solo tutorial

[Eric Yang < >]

Title: Re: [chef] Re: Re: Chef-solo tutorial

This is exactly what I missed.  Works great after the structure change.  Chef-solo wiki should include your example.  :)   Thank you, Michael.  

Regards,
Eric

On 2/24/11 6:45 PM, "Michael Callahan" <
 
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 > wrote:

> Local path names should work fine as URLs for the recipe bundle argument--we do this all the time (albeit with an old version of Chef).
>
> However, I think chef-solo expects the tarball you give it to have a directory structure of the form
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>     cookbooks/
>        |---- cbname1/
>        |       |--attributes/ ... etc
>        ...
>        |---- cbname2/
>        |       |--attributes/
>        ...
>
> In other words, if your resolver-0.82.tar.gz just extracts into a single directory resolver/, or even dumps the metadata.rb, attributes/, recipes/ etc entries into the current directory, you need to make a new tarball which has that cookbook within a toplevel cookbooks/ directory, with cookbooks/resolver/ under that.
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> See the Rakefile task for bundling cookbooks for details...
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> Michael
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> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Jonathan Matthews <
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>  > wrote:
> > On 25 February 2011 01:52, Eric Yang <
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> >  > wrote:
> > > Chef-solo –j node.json –r resolver-0.8.2.tar.gz
> >
> > That doesn't look like a URL to me.
> >
> > From the wiki page you cited: "-r, --recipe-url RECIPE_URL"
> >
> > Jonathan
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