[chef] Re: Re: Customizing cookbooks

[Sachin Sagar Rai < >]

Using tools like librarian or berkshelf will simplify and reduce the pain of developing customized cookbook.

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On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Edward Sargisson wrote:

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, < "> > 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?