[chef] Re: Re: AWS OpsWorks custom

[Liam Kirsher < >]

Thanks, Peter!  That looks like what  was looking for.

Is the mirror a mirror of the master branch, or can you specify
different branches?
The repo is not a fork, I gather.

I may give this a try, although someone else made a comment that
OpsWorks version of Chef is old and does not support many of the opscode
community cookbooks.
So, I may have to come up with a different plan.

Liam


On 05/23/2013 06:20 PM, Peter Donald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We use a variant of the braid tool to do something similar to this.
> Braid will merge in a remote git repository into a local git
> repository and allow you to periodically update from the source repo.
> The original author stopped looking after the product so we use a
> variant you can install via "gem install realityforge-braid"
>
> So a sample workflow may be
>
> $ mkdir mycookbooks
> $ cd mycookbooks
> $ git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in .../mycookbooks/.git/
> $ vi README
> $ git add README
> $ git commit -m "My First commit"
> [master (root-commit) 407698e] My First commit
>  0 files changed
>  create mode 100644 README
> $ braid add https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/sql_server.git  sql_server
> Braid: Adding mirror of 
> 'https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/sql_server.git'.
> Braid: Setup: Creating remote for 'sql_server'.
> Braid: Added mirror at 'd9702f8'.
> $ ls -a
> .  ..  .braids  .git  README  sql_server
>
> And then you can import as many cookbooks as you want, potentially
> upgrade them at a later point via
>
> $ braid update sql_server/
> Braid: Updating mirror 'sql_server'.
> Braid: Mirror 'sql_server' is already up to date.
>
> You can also edit the local cookbook and commit changes. It is easy to
> view these changes via
>
> $ braid diff sql_server/
> diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
> index 34e8973..a9e6356 100644
> --- a/README.md
> +++ b/README.md
> @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ Description
>
>  Installs and configures Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 server and
> client.  By default the Express edition is installed, but the
> `sql_server::server` recipe supports installation of other editions
> (see __Usage__ below).
>
> +Look at me - I am local changes
> +
>  Requirements
>  ============
>
> You can see the list of mirrors via something like
>
> $ braid list
>
> Braid: Listing all mirrors.
> =======================================================
> sql_server (Locally Modified)
>
>
> HTH
>

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