[chef] Re: Issues with Template Files after upgrading to Chef 10.6

[Zuhaib Siddique < >]

Dan.

I fully understand that you can support all edge cases, trust me about it at 
our company we have a hard time QA'ing everything.  Also the hack we did is 
not something I am proud about so it was a good thing it broke as it forced 
me to rewrite it the right way.

The hack was something like this:

    template "/tmp/properties.map" do
      only_if do environment == "Webclient-INT" end
      source "INT.properties.map.erb"
      mode 0644
      owner "tomcat6"
      group "tomcat6"
                variables(
            <STUFF>
                )
      end

    template "/tmp/properties.map" do
      only_if do environment == "Webclient-QA" end
      source "QA.properties.map.erb"
      mode 0644
      owner "tomcat6"
      group "tomcat6"
        variables(
 <STUFF>
         )
      end
and etc… As we would bring online new Environments we would add to this.  Now 
I have collapsed it to a single template call and we set the source name 
somewhere else.

Zjuhaib
On Dec 16, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

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> 
> On Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Zuhaib Siddique wrote:
> 
>> So I found the issue, it was in the past we abused the "only_if" 
>> statements for templates
> 
> Can you explain what you were doing? Were you overwriting the only_if 
> setting on the resource?
> 
>> Its a bit annoying that things change on you jut by an upgrade but hey…
> 
> We strive to never break people with patch upgrades, so I'm bummed we 
> didn't meet that standard for your case. That said, we can't catch every 
> issue with automated testing and code review, so we rely on our community 
> to test release candidates. If you'd like to help, you can join the 
> chef-dev list to be notified when beta and RC versions are available for 
> testing.
> 
>> 
>> Zuhaib
> 
> 
> 
> --  
> Dan DeLeo
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