[chef] Re: Application cookbook -- using Mercurial SCM provider

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Jun 4, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Liam Kirsher wrote:

> Hi --
> 
> I'm using the Application / Application_python cookbook to install Django.
> The app source code lives in a Mercurial repo (which happens to be
> private).
> I need a little help here on how to do this.  This is what I've got, but
> it's not working.
> 
> Does anyone have an example of how to do this?
> 
> How do I correctly reference the Mercurial provider?
> I have verified that hg clone works with that url.
> Does the ssh private key have to omit a passphrase?
> I think the file referenced by deploy_key has to be uploaded somehow as
> part of the cookbook.
> 
>> application "bart" do
>>  path "/srv/bart"
>>  owner "nobody"
>>  group "nogroup"
>>  scm_provider "Chef::Provider::Mercurial"
>>  repository 
>> "ssh://
 /bart/server/bart"
>>  revision "master"
>>  deploy_key "/home/liam/.ssh/bti"
>>  migrate true
>>  packages ["libpq-dev", "git-core", "mercurial"]


This is not currently possible :-( You can look at the pypy-home cookbook in 
github.com/python/psf-chef for my best effort (using a forked version of the 
hg cookbook, take note) but it is still super flaky.

--Noah

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