[chef] Re: ActiveMQ cookbook needs to rev to 5.5.1

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Oct 26, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Edward Sargisson wrote:

> Would there be a way to write the cookbooks so they grab their
> external downloads and stash them in a repository.
> Then normal operation would get them from the repository.

I've been told by Opscode personnel that it is Best Current Practice for a 
site to set up their own local repo for all the repos & packages that they 
depend on, and then to use that local repo during their provisioning process. 
 However, at least for RPM-based OSes like CentOS, I have not yet found a 
chef cookbook for easily mirroring repos.  There is the yum-utils package 
that can be installed, and it has a reposync tool that it includes, but I 
have yet to find any cookbook that has been wrapped around these tools to 
make this process more automated.

I just recently started a private discussion with some others in the chef 
community on this very subject.  I don't know if we'll end up doing a 
collaboration or not, or maybe we can just turn up a suitable cookbook that 
has already been developed.

But I think we're all in the same boat on that subject, so this is clearly a 
community issue that needs to be addressed one way or the other.

-- 
Brad Knowles 
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