[chef] Re: Using a template inside a provider

[Alex Kiernan < >]

RTFM :)

Thanks - for whatever reason the penny just didn't drop that was there
for doing just this!

On 4/20/11, Seth Chisamore 
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 wrote:
> Alex,
> Look into the 'cookbook' attribute for the template resource:
> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Resources#Resources-Template
>
> You can then expose this as an attribute on your LWRP. The default would be
> set to the cookbook your LWRP lives in. Then pass this value (passed in as
> an LWRP attribute) directly down to the template resource used in your
> provider making for easy overrides.
>
> Seth
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> On Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Alex Kiernan wrote:
> I'm working on a provider for delivering tomcat instances (so separate
>> CATALINA_BASE/CATALINA_HOME), but I need to deliver customised
>> versions of some of the standard config files (e.g.
>> catalina.properties). Trying to use a template inside the provider
>> works fine, but the recipe consuming the provider then has to know
>> that it needs that template file inside its template directory.
>>
>> Is there some way to package templates alongside the provider? Or
>> maybe I'm going about this the wrong way... I'll want to be able to
>> override those file defaults too in different recipes.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> --
>> Alex Kiernan
>>
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>

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