[chef] Re: Overriding chef built-in providers

[Yvonne Lam < >]

I just today learned how to override one of chef's providers with a
heavyweight provider, code snippet here:

https://gist.github.com/yzl/9699474

HTH

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Guy Matz 
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 wrote:
> Hi! I would like to override the mount provider so that it does try to mount
> in my dev environment . .   I was hoping to add a mount cookbook with a
> provider that would simply check the chef environment and make super calls
> if the environment is not dev.
>
> Is this stupid?  Anyone have a better way?  If this doesn't sound terrible,
> then can someone say if what I want to do is possible?  I couldn't find
> anything on the nets about overriding providers .  .
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Guy