[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: resource for copy local file?

[Adam Jacob < >]

This is a quick, untested hack - but stick this in a library in a
cookbook, and use it like the gist says, and you should get the copy
behavior you want.

https://gist.github.com/1185022

Adam

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Charles Duffy 
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 wrote:
> No surprise -- the read is happening at compile time, but the remote_file
> resource is actually _created_ at execution time.
>
> You could force it to run at compile time, I suppose, but the better answer
> is that trying to use the "content IO.read" approach doesn't make sense if
> you're trying to read things which prior execution-time resources change.
>
> Anyhow, it's a bad idea for large files, as it means you need to have enough
> memory to store the whole thing -- not a great pattern to use often.
>
> Perhaps you could implement the copy in a ruby_block resource? That will
> make it happen at execution time properly.
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:29 PM, 
> <
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>  wrote:
>>
>> I still got error: FATAL: Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory -
>> /httpfile
>> after I add only_if statement
>>
>> remote_file "/httpfile" do
>>    source "http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home";
>>    mode "0666"
>> end
>> file "/httpfile.bak" do
>>    content IO.read("/httpfile")
>>    only_if {File.exists?("/httpfile")}
>> end
>>
>> I
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>



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