[chef] Re: setting of my chef cookbooks, how to link to other cookbooks when using git?

[AJ Christensen < >]

Have a look at Librarian, it's designed for managing this.

Knife also has some built in tools for managing cookbooks -- knife
cookbook site download, knife cookbook site install, knife-github
plugin, etc.

--AJ

On 12 April 2012 09:53, S Ahmed 
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 wrote:
> So I'm setting up a simple chef solo repository, and confused how I can
> pull-in cookbooks from opscode etc.
>
> Say my structure is like:
>
> /project/chef
> /project/chef/conf/solo.rb
> /project/chef/cookbooks/
>
> Now my git repository is under /project:
>
> /project/.git
>
> When I download other cookbooks, like if I clone opscode cookbooks from
> github the folder structure is:
>
> /cookbooks/
> /cookbooks/activemq
> ...
>
> So if I want a specific cookbook, I have to copy the folder over to my
> /cookbooks folder, but then I update the cookbook using git.
>
> Other individual cookbooks are see around are named like:  someapp-cookbook
>
> I'm sure I'm thinking of this the wrong way, but how can I pull down
> cookbooks into my cookbooks directly while being able to update them from
> their git repo?