[chef] Re: Local install using chef_gem

[Sean Escriva < >]

JOHN HASTY 
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 writes:

Hi John,

> I am building servers that are behind firewalls where we don't want to
> fetch things from the Internet. I would like to be able to obtain the gems
> necessary for the process and copy them from our internal repository and
> then install locally.
>
> I tried the following:
>
>   #chef_gem "zk" do
>     #action :install
>   #end

chef_gem is for installing gems to the omnibus bundled ruby, generally
not what you want unless you intend to use the libraries directly in chef
recipes. perhaps gem_package? Also, it looks like this is commented out?

>
>   if ! File.exist?("/opt/chef/maint/gemsetup")
>
>     directory "/tmp/gems" do
>       owner "root"
>       action :create
>     end
>
>     %w(little-plugger-1.1.3.gem logger-1.2.8.gem mini_portile-0.5.2.gem
> logging-1.7.2.gem zookeeper-1.4.8.gem zk-1.9.3.gem).each do |gemfile|

lots to be stuffing in the chef bundled roobay :)

>
>       bash "Fetch #{gemfile} and install" do
>         user "root"
>         cwd  "/tmp/gems"
>         code <<-EOH
>         wget http://gitserver:4002/gems/#{gemfile}
>         /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install -V #{gemfile}
>         EOH
>       end

instead of a bash resource doing two things at once this may be better
split into two resource calls if you need to go this route: remote_file and 
chef_gem

since chef_gem can install from the local file system, maybe something along
the lines of:

%w(little-plugger-1.1.3.gem logger-1.2.8.gem mini_portile-0.5.2.gem
logging-1.7.2.gem zookeeper-1.4.8.gem zk-1.9.3.gem).each do |gemfile|

gem_local_path = ::File.join("/tmp/gems/", gemfile)

remote_file gem_local_path do
   source "http://gitserver:4002/gems/#{gemfile}";
end

chef_gem gemfile do
  source gem_local_path
end

>
> But when I got to the line of code "require 'zk', it blew up.
>
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...snip sig...

-- 
-sean