[chef] Re: Re: Overriding dependencies

[Steve Hummingbird < >]

I am on Ubuntu. I just checked running my cookbooks, without the tomcat 
cookbook and issuing a manual apt-get install tomcat7 on the node. Seems like 
this pulls in openjdk as well :/
Oracle JDK is no longer available via packet managers. So that unfortunately 
is not an option.
Probably the best thing to do here is to use a different cookbook or fork the 
cookbook to directly download tomcat from the website and install it that 
way. SImilar to what the java cookbook is doing for oracle jdk.
It just seems kind of messy to me to install openjdk and then install oracle 
jdk as well, even though this seems to be the recommended way: 
http://askubuntu.com/questions/103027/installing-tomcat-from-repo-with-java-from-oracle

-Steve

On Nov 1, 2013, at 3:58 AM, Julian C. Dunn wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Steve Hummingbird
> <
 >
>  wrote:
> 
>> 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 have seen this before on RHEL/CentOS (if you are not on one of these
> platforms then ignore the following advice).
> 
> It is not really a Chef problem, but a RHEL problem in that the Tomcat
> RPM pulls in OpenJDK, because that is what provides "java". You could
> try installing Oracle Java via RPM if it also provides "java".
> 
> Alternately, you can leave OpenJDK on the system just to satisfy the
> RPM depends and then update-alternatives right after Tomcat gets
> installed. In fact you might even be able to notify :execute on
> "bash[update-java-alternatives]" if you still have that in your
> resource collection from the Java cookbook.
> 
> - Julian