[chef] Re: Re: Re: Overriding dependencies

[Steve Hummingbird < >]

Ha, there actually is a ticket, which describes the same issue:
https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-2695


On Nov 1, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Steve Hummingbird wrote:

> 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
>