[chef] Re: Newbie question about installing custom software

[Jacobo García < >]

I will just download every package with remote_file resource and then
use package resource to install the packages on the machines, you can
specify in package_name attribute the location of the package in the
filesystem.

Hope it helps.

Jacobo García López de Araujo
blog: http://robotplaysguitar.com
http://workingwithrails.com/person/13395-jacobo-garc-a




On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:36 PM,  
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 wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've just started evaluating Chef - so this may be something that's already
> covered in the documentation. However, I've not been able to find it - so
> asking here.
>
> I've a set of custom software packages (let's say that can be downloaded 
> from a
> certain location on Amazon S3) which I want to install as part of my 
> automated
> machine setup. These are not available as part of any Linux distro's 
> standard
> repository, so apt-get/yum won't work.
>
> What is the fastest way to get this working? As I see it, it boils down to
> running a custom script. How easy or how hard is it to do in Chef?
>
> - H
>