[chef] Re: a Cookbook pattern, the "corporate" repository for proprietary packages

[Brian Akins < >]

On Nov 10, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Bryan Berry wrote:

> 
> Dear chefs, do you prefer to use a url to load proprietary packages or to 
> use a corporate repository?

We, generally, use repos for our in house packages -- mostly deb's and gem's. 
 The, IMO, makes it easier to pull in dependencies using "normal" tools 
(apt-get, etc).

We use fpm to package things into debs rather than compiling things on each 
individual boxes, as well.