[chef] Customizing the templates of a community cookbook?

[Morgan Blackthorne < >]

What's the "right" way to handle this? I'm looking to migrate over to using Berkshelf and something that I'm coming across is that I've got a package or two where I've customized the templates generated by a community cookbook for my specific use (either via OS or host directories).

Is it better to create a wrapper cookbook, or is there some other way to handle this that I'm missing? I found a previous thread on this here: http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2012-07/msg00038.html, but it looks like whatever scenario they were referencing is no longer in the documentation. (Not sure if it didn't last from the wiki -> doc conversion, or if it had been removed from the wiki prior to that.)

Thanks!

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