[chef] Re: OS Specific Recipes

[Andrea Campi < >]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:20 PM,  
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 wrote:
> I was just curious why you gave the ability to provide multiple versions of 
> the
> same file or template for different OS's (File Specificity), but not for
> recipes.

Speaking as just a user, I can think of only a handful of cookbooks
where I would want to completely override a recipe depending on the
OS: in most cases it's just a few resources that need to be
OS-specific, the rest of the recipe is cross-platform.
Moreover, in the case of templates, the file is (mostly) the same
across platform; it's just the content that changes, so that's easy.
Compare that to packages, where you have almost as many variations as
the number of existing distros :/

That said, in some case things diverge so much between distros that it
may make sense; in those cases it's quite trivial to roll your own.
See https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks/tree/master/postgresql/recipes
for an example of how easy it can be.

Andrea