[chef] Re: Any alternative response_file for CentOS?

["John E. Vincent (lusis)" < >]

I think you might be confusing the response_file for Oracle with the
dpkg support for response file. It's been a while since I've done an
"automated" Oracle install but you'll probably want to use the execute
resource.

Essentially it would be something like this gist:

https://gist.github.com/865637

Note that the idempotence checks (not_if/only_if) are somewhat
limited. You'll probably want to create an LWRP in the end unless you
can wrap up the determination of a valid oracle install into a single
statement. For example, here's how we handle creating mysql accounts
for our users:

https://gist.github.com/865645

You can see the hoops I'm jumping through in the 'not_if' statement to
avoid rerunning the work. I really should create a mysql permissions
LWRP.

Hope that helps!

John E. Vincent
http://about.me/lusis

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:17 AM, ryan T 
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 wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I want to write a recipe to install Oracle on EC2 CentOS instance, which
> requires some interactive input.
> Use of response_file seems to meet my need.
> Unfortunately, use of a response file is only supported on Debian and Ubuntu
> at this time - as Opscode wiki says.
>
> Is there any other ways to do this in CentOS?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
>