[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: cookbok file-- copy only if new

[Manoj Thakkar < >]

Daniel,Alan,

Help me understand this if i copy a new file to the cookbook , do i need to a cookbook upload also ? or the chef-client will see the new file without the cookbook upload ?

sorry for too many questions and discussions i am new to all this.

Thanks

Manoj

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Manoj < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Thanks for the input

This is what I am seeing on my server 11.4 I have a cookbook_file resource where I am copying a file a-1.1.0-snapshot.war , when I copy a new war file to the cookbook files/default location and run chef client the chef client says uptodate and don't download the file 

Please help me with the proper fix for this 

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On Sep 13, 2013, at 9:31 AM, Daniel DeLeo < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Friday, September 13, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Manoj wrote:

I can have the chef client download the artifacts sure but as i said the artifacts name are the same I would not know what's downloaded from repository 

Putting it in the chef server from Jenkins is my way of tracking what I am deploying to chef client , I think it's pretty standard from traceability point of virw to put data in chef server for jenkins 

Are you saying there is no way a cookbook file can do a checksum or see if Ike is modified . I was reading cookbook_fie documentation and it says it does copy file only Fi modified in theory 

All of the file resources are idempotent and will only update a file if it's modified. In the remote_file case, if you are on 11.6+ and your server supports conditional GET, then the file will not be re-downloaded; if you're on an earlier version of chef, the file has to be redownloaded for chef to check if it's changed. You can use the checksum attribute on the resource to avoid this.

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Daniel DeLeo