[chef] Re: Re: yum install from URL

[Paul Graydon < >]

I would urge caution in the use of this.  Depending on 3rd party / 
non-yum repo sources will cause cookbooks to completely fail if the 3rd 
party source has gone away or is offline for a bit.  I know it's caused 
me more than a few headaches in the past.

You could put the RPM in the cookbook but that's possibly a little ugly, 
depending on the size of it.  Alternatively you could keep a copy on 
your own server to fetch from.  An added advantage of this is you know 
exactly what is being installed on your servers.

I've got something based on this in one of our recipes:

    remote_file 
"#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/check_mk-agent-#{version}.noarch.rpm" do
      source 
"https://foo.bar.baz/checkmk/check_mk-agent-#{version}.noarch.rpm";
      not_if "rpm -qa | grep -q '^check_mk-agent-#{version}'"
      notifies :install, "rpm_package[check_mk]", :immediately
    end

    rpm_package "check_mk" do
      source 
"#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/check_mk-agent-#{version}.noarch.rpm"
      only_if 
{::File.exists?("#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/check_mk-agent-#{version}.noarch.rpm")}
      action :nothing
    end

It occurs to me that maybe the latter isn't such a smart idea. I'm not 
sure what Chef does underneath it all, but if there are dependencies 
then using RPM will probably fail.  Thinking possibly better to 
substitute the 2nd block with this (and adjust the notifies in the 1st 
block).  According to docs.opscode.com specifying "source" in the 
yum_package resource will cause it to do "yum localinstall"

    yum_package "check_mk" do
      source 
"#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/check_mk-agent-#{version}.noarch.rpm"
      only_if 
{::File.exists?("#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/check_mk-agent-#{version}.noarch.rpm")}
      action :nothing
    end

Paul

On 01/06/2013 12:00 PM, Sean OMeara wrote:
> Hi Jordi!
>
> try this:
>
> package "rabbit" do
>    source 
> "http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-server/v3.0.1/rabbitmq-server-3.0.1-1.noarch.rpm";
>    action :install
>    provider Chef::Provider::Package::Rpm
> end
>
> -s
>
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Jordi Llonch 
> <
>  >
>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I run the following command using a recipe?
> >
> > yum install -y
> > http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-server/v3.0.1/rabbitmq-server-3.0.1-1.noarch.rpm
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jordi