[chef] Re: Modifying the file specificity search path

["Eric G. Wolfe" < >]

Agreed, the way I've dealt with this is use a platform specific folder (centos|redhat) and have a -5 and -6 template available.  Then select the template "source" with a platform_version.to_i or a .split, as you chose.

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On 07/25/2011 12:01 AM, Charles Duffy wrote:

" type="cite"> Howdy, all --

Is there a way I can make the next item in the file specificity search path after "#{node[:platform]}-#{node[:platform_version]}" be "#{node[:platform]}-#{node[:platform_version].split('.')[0]}"?

The current behavior (if I understand it from the documentation correctly) doesn't really make sense for a lot of cases -- as minor version numbers for RHEL-derived distributions update as time goes on when doing regular stability-and-security updates with no action taken by the user, cookbooks currently can break for no reason other than a new upstream install image being available (the file you needed is suddenly being looked for in centos-5.6/foo rather than centos-5.5/foo, though all you *really* needed was to distinguish the centos-5 version from the centos-6 version). Having a major-version-only path entry thus makes sense; can this be accomplished without patching Chef?

Thanks!