[chef] Re: Re: Re: remote_file resource -- new to Chef

[Bryan Berry < >]

Hey Peter,

It looks like we are shaving the similar yaks :)

your method of installing glassfish looks almost exactly the same as my java_ark lwrp. The only exception is that you   have a different way to avoid downloading the tarball each time.

https://github.com/bryanwb/chef-java

java_ark "glassfish" do

    url  "path"

    checksum "..sha256sum..."

   app_home "/usr/local/glassfish/default"

   owner  "glassfish"

end

I am not sure any more whether I really need to provide the checksum after all. also, app_home could probably be changed to `prefix_dir`  and provided the value /usr/local/ rather than /usr/local/glassfish/default

java_ark handles unpacking .zip, .tar.gz, and .tar.bz2

Your lwrps for glassfish look remarkably like what I am trying to do w/ the tomcat and jboss cookbooks.

It would be great if we could chat on IRC or skype (berrdawg) about the challenges of creating java-related, esp.  consistent system v init scripts for both debian and EL (rhel) and how to install multiple instances containers on the same system. 

hope to hear from you soon!

BryanWB

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Peter Donald < "> > wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Bryan Berry < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

from what I can tell remote_file only supports pulling from a url or the files/ subdirectory of your cookbook.  Where do you get app.war from in the first place?

btw, if you are working on a java stack these java-related cookbooks may be useful to you  https://github.com/bryanwb/cookbooks/tree/master/java 

https://github.com/bryanwb/cookbooks/tree/master/tomcat (alpha)

And if you are using GlassFish v3 checkout 

https://github.com/realityforge/chef-glassfish

and for bonita (a java BPMN server)

https://github.com/realityforge/chef-bonita

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Cheers,

Peter Donald