[chef] Re: Re: Re: Newbie question about installing custom software

[Grig Gheorghiu < >]

Here's a fragment from a recipe that installs nginx from source:

nginx = "nginx-#{node[:evite][:nginx_version]}"
nginx_pkg = "#{nginx}.tar.gz"
nginx_upstream = "nginx-upstream-fair.tar.gz"
nginx_upload = "nginx_upload_module-2.2.0.tar.gz"

downloads = [
    "#{nginx_pkg}",
    "#{nginx_upstream}",
    "#{nginx_upload}",
]

downloads.each do |file|
    remote_file "/tmp/#{file}" do
        source "http://my.site.com/download/nginx/#{file}";
    end
end

script "install_nginx_from_src" do
  interpreter "bash"
  user "root"
  cwd "/tmp"
  not_if "test -f /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf"
  code <<-EOH
    tar xvfz #{nginx_upstream}
    tar xvfz #{nginx_upload}
    tar xvfz #{nginx_pkg}
    cd #{nginx}
    ./configure --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module
--add-module=/tmp/nginx-upstream-fair/
--add-module=/tmp/nginx_upload_module-2.2.0/; make; make install
    EOH
end

(we also have this attribute in cookbooks/evite/attributes/default.rb:
default[:evite][:nginx_version] = '0.8.20')

HTH

Grig

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Hrishikesh Barua 
<
 >
 wrote:
> Thank you all for the responses and apologies for the late reply. The
> packages I am installing are not RPMs or any standard installers. As I
> mentioned, they're .jar or zip files that have custom installation
> processes. Anyways, I'll see if I can modify your approaches to suit my
> requirements.
>
> Thanks!
> - H
>
> On 11 March 2011 22:42, John E. Vincent (lusis)
> <
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>  wrote:
>>
>> That's pretty interesting. I wanted to avoid standing up a dedicated
>> yum server for our handful of packages so I stuck them in a yum like
>> structure in s3 and they get synced down to the clients using s3cmd
>> sync as part of recipes (as well as a daily cronjob)
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/866206
>>
>> This installs the base repo files and does some cleanup on repos that
>> were added before I got here.
>>
>> So basically each server has a copy of our packages on the EC2 /mnt
>> volume. I just build them locally in a VM for each arch.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Charles Duffy 
>> <
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>>  wrote:
>> > 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
>> >
>> >
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