[chef] Re: Newbie question about installing custom software

[Charles Duffy < >]

I have a "cookbook_rpms" recipe I use for the purpose. Note that, as it uses yum localinstall, it requires that your packages need to be signed (but this is trivial -- you can just do find . -name '*.rpm' -exec rpm --addsign {} + to sign everything in your repo, once you've set up a key pair).

See https://github.com/Tippr/tippr-public-cookbooks/tree/master/cookbook_rpms

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:36 AM, < "> > 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