[chef] Re: Overriding dependencies

[Eduardo Dias < >]

Steve we do the same that you need.  I am at home and I left my notebook at office, tomorrow I can send you how we solved it. I can not send the cookbook but I can send you how we run the recipes.
Eduardo
Sent my mobile phone.

Em 31/10/2013 20:47, "Steve Hummingbird" < "> > escreveu:

I am facing the following problem:

I have forked the opscode java cookbook, since I needed to add some features (pull request already submitted)
I created a wrapper cookbook around the java cookbook, which is called oracle-java, which manages the actual java installation.

Now I am trying to create a wrapper cookbook for tomcat, which just sets some meaningful defaults for my infrastructure when installing tomcat.

When installing tomcat via my tomcat-wrapper cookbook, I noticed that the tomcat cookbook fails, as the java keytool is not present where it is expected. Up on closer inspection, I noticed that the tomcat cookbook pulls in openjdk. I tried running the oracle-java cookbook before running the tomcat cookbook, but that didn't change anything. It seems that the tomcat cookbook just overrides the previous oracle java installation.

I am using - or at least trying to use - Berkshelf to manage my dependencies.

How do I tell my tomcat wrapper cookbook to not use the java cookbook and use the already existing java installation? Or, even better, not use the java cookbook and use the oracle-java cookbook, which depends on my fork of the java cookbook?

Thanks,
Steve