[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Include a Recipe in a Provider

[Andrea Campi < >]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:13 PM, AJ Christensen 
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> On 30 December 2011 11:11, Andrea Campi 
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>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Joshua Timberman 
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>>> Hello,
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>>> On Dec 29, 2011, at 12:04 PM, 
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>>>> Is it possible to include a recipe in a provider? I have tried using the
>>>> include_recipe function both inside the action definition and outside 
>>>> but it
>>>> doesn't seem to be available that way.
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>>> No, include_recipe isn't available in cookbook providers/ directories.
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>> Actually, there is a way:
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>> action :create do
>>  run_context.include_recipe "apache2"
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> Does this include the recipe in the outer node context, or the new
> context defined in the LWRP? I had some trouble with this WRT
> MiniTest, ended up using compile time resources for everything.

Good question, and I'm puzzled: does a new LWRP create a new context?
I would have thought no—if for no other reason, because IIRC a
"sub-run context" cannot notify an "external" run context, and I'm
pretty sure I do.

Anyway, my fork of the application cookbook
(https://github.com/zephirworks/cookbooks/tree/COOK-634) does exactly
this, and we've been running it in production for months now with no
ill effect.

Granted, MiniTest is probably doing trickier stuff…

Andrea