[chef] Re: Customizing cookbooks

[Edward Sargisson < >]

That's how I've been doing it.
Note that knife cookbook site install will do the branch, tag and merge for 
you.
There is a gotcha where if it downloads dependencies that you've
already updated then there will be no changes for git and the process
stops - however the cookbook you wanted will have worked.

I also use the git diff process to review every change that is made by
the updated cookbook.

Secondly, (although kind of firstly) I watch each cookbook on the
cookbooks site so that I know when they change.

Cheers,
Edward

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:26 AM,  
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 wrote:
> I have installed a cookbook to my chef server using knife cookbook site 
> install
> <COOKBOOK>, and I need to make some customizations to it. I've done that and
> then pushed it up to my git repo where we're storing all of our cookbooks.
>
> What is the appropriate way to make sure I am receiving updates from the
> opscode public repo? Do I just run knife cookbook site install <COOKBOOK> 
> again
> and then merge the changes with my git repo? Or is there a better way to do
> that?