[chef] Re: Re: Berkshelf installs additional java

[Charles Betz < >]

Thanks -- By "that cookbook" you mean the community Ant cookbook..?

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Medya < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

That cookbook needs to be rewritten with LWRPs, instead of recipes, to avoid this kind of problems.

I ended up creating my own java cookbook.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Charles Betz < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Have a base build in Vagrant with Oracle Java 7 pre-installed. (I created a wrapper cookbook for the community Java cookbook and successfully used attributes to override the OpenJDK 6 default.)

Using the community Ant recipe. It specifies a Java dependency. Because of this, Berkshelf additionally installs OpenJDK 7 which causes build confusion. 

I created a wrapper cookbook for Ant and specified the Oracle attributes in it hoping that transitive Java install would take these attributes, but no dice. 

Lots of Googling before I turned here. The Java cookbook suggests that consuming cookbooks allow for such an override but the Ant cookbook doesn't seem to allow it. 

Am I overlooking some aspect of how to correctly configure metadata and the Berksfile? It's not a simple semver revision level problem. 

At this point it seems I need to just install Ant with shell exec. 

This is with Vagrant Berkshelf plugin driven by a Vagrantfile, not a ChefDK kitchen.yml. 

Thanks for any assistance. 

Charlie