[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Contribute to the elasticsearch cookbook?

[Denis Barishev < >]

On 04/17/2012 01:29 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:
> if I can chime in, downloading and unpacking using the ark resource
> would be as simple as
>
> ark "elasticsearch" do
>     url 
> https://github.com/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.19.2.tar.gz
>     prefix_root "/usr/local"
>     checksum  adac92d66ce91f42d9e67bd60e6b1335995f5dfdd153165fdcf1fe24b63ac59e
>     has_binaries [ "bin/elasticsearch" ]
> end
>
> https://github.com/bryanwb/chef-ark
>
> just an idea ;)

Yeah, I couldn't agree more it is awesome. But I've got only one 
question regarding ark. How does it track whether the app is installed? 
Does it keep downloaded source tarball or what?
Actually I'm interested in the ark and I will probably use it later)
Bryan note that elasticsearch is now debianized (>- 0.19) so there's no 
need to use source installation method if you've got your apt repository 
or some kind of third-party repository like PPA. In debian/ubuntu with 
versions later 0.19 packages can be easily used.

Denis