[chef] Re: Recipe subset-ing

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Joaquin Casares wrote:
> Hello, 
> I have cookbook X that calls many functions off of cookbook Y. But my 
> attributes for cookbook X are a superset of cookbook Y's attributes and of 
> the values that intersect some are different in cookbook X.
> How would I go about doing this correctly?
> Right now I call include_recipe "Y::recipe1" from "X::default", but it 
> seems to overwrite all my X configs that intersect.
> Should I just change cookbook X to use override instead of default settings?
> Thanks for the help!
> Joaquin
If possible, you should structure your recipes and roles to avoid this 
situation entirely. If that's not an option, you can use `include_attribute` 
in an attributes file to force one attributes file to load before another.

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Dan DeLeo