[chef] Re: How to deal with cookbook dependence for other Distro/OS's

[Andrea Campi < >]

A trick I've used when in a rush:
If the dependency is only In the manifest, and you're positive you don't need 
eg jpackage on any of your nodes, you can just stub it out.
That is, create a new empty jpackage cookbook and upload that one.
Not a long-term solution, but it may help in the short term. YMMV



On Oct 20, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Zuhaib Siddique 
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 wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> So it seems some of the cookbooks from Opscode by default set depends 
> statements in their metadata.rb for cookbooks that are required by a 
> particular OS/Distro.  In the case of say tomcat cookbook it sets jpackage 
> as a dependence but you only need that for RPM base Distro's.  Since I am 
> deploying on a Ubuntu box I am not included jpackage in the run list and 
> that made it very unhappy.  So I just removed it from the metadata.rb but I 
> am just wondering if this is what is expected to be done by the cookbook 
> provided by opscode?
> 
> Thanks
> Zuhaib