[chef] Nginx cookbook changes/improvements

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Ohai Chefs,

I've created a couple tickets for some pretty significant changes to
Opscode's nginx cookbook.

First, COOK-1952[0]. It seems that the bulk of the GeoIP recipe here has
nothing to actually do with nginx, and it should be moved to its own
cookbook, e.g. "geoip." The nginx-specific bits would be refactored into
the cookbook accordingly.

Second, COOK-1953[1]. This proposes the removal of all the source
compiling parts of the nginx cookbook to a new cookbook, "nginx_source."
This will help narrow the scope of nginx as a library-esque cookbook that
provides common default components that can be used no matter if nginx is
installed via package or from source - recipes, definitions, attributes,
etc.

There's a number of benefits, least of all is that maintaining the "nginx"
cookbook will be easier, as will testing it with test-kitchen.

Does this change give anyone heartburn? In other words, is anyone
particularly strongly tied to having a single cookbook that handles the
relatively simple and straightforward package install vs the arduous and
complex source install that is required for basic nginx module
customization?


[0]: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1952
[1]: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1953
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