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

[Alex Kiernan < >]

Couple of typos, but solves a particular itch for me!

--- file_provider_copy.rb.orig  2011-09-09 10:43:20.000000000 +0100
+++ file_provider_copy.rb       2011-09-09 10:34:03.000000000 +0100
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 class Chef
   class Provider
     class File
-      class Copy << Chef::Provider::File
+      class Copy < Chef::Provider::File

         def compare_content
           checksum(@current_resource.path) == checksum(@new_resource.content)
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
         def set_content
           unless compare_content
             backup @new_resource.path if ::File.exists?(@new_resource.path)
-            ::File.cp_r(@new_resource.content, @new_resource.path)
+            ::FileUtils.cp_r(@new_resource.content, @new_resource.path)
             
Chef::Log.info("
 
 copied to

 ")
             @new_resource.updated_by_last_action(true)


On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Adam Jacob 
<
 >
 wrote:
> 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 
> <
 >
>  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, 
>> <
 >
>>  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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Alex Kiernan