[chef] Re: apt repository cookbook

[AJ Christensen < >]

No need to use a cookbook. Try aptly, it's stand-alone
http://www.aptly.info/ -- packagecloud.io is similar, but a hosted
SaaS.

You might be able to use the LWRPs from that Heavy Water repository
cookbook without using the recipes.

It looks like the resource declaration at line 34-37 is the wrong type
of resource. It looks as though you want a
Chef::Resource::RepositoryPackage (repository_package), which has the
repository parameter/argument:
https://github.com/hw-cookbooks/repository/blob/master/resources/package.rb

The repository resource is special 'default' LWRP.

I wouldn't really recommend using any community cookbooks (not even
mine), especially if you don't know what the code is doing. You are
effectively backdoor/root shelling all of your machines with
ignorance.

cheers,

--aj

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Douglas Garstang
<
 >
 wrote:
> I'm trying to set up an apt repository with chef. Trying to use a community
> cookbook, I found this one: https://github.com/hw-cookbooks/repository
>
> It's readme says to drop new deb files into the /srv/repository_incoming
> directory and then run the chef-client. Doing that gets me this error:
>
> ==> default: NoMethodError
> ==> default: -------------
> ==> default: undefined method `repository' for Chef::Resource::Repository
> ==> default:
> ==> default:
> ==> default: Cookbook Trace:
> ==> default: ---------------
> ==> default:
> /tmp/vagrant-chef/8c7b6c4971128a90594d5194827546c6/cookbooks/repository/recipes/incoming.rb:36:in
> `block (3 levels) in from_file'
> ==> default:
> /tmp/vagrant-chef/8c7b6c4971128a90594d5194827546c6/cookbooks/repository/recipes/incoming.rb:33:in
> `each'
> ==> default:
> /tmp/vagrant-chef/8c7b6c4971128a90594d5194827546c6/cookbooks/repository/recipes/incoming.rb:33:in
> `block (2 levels) in from_file'
> ==> default:
> ==> default:
> ==> default:
> ==> default: Resource Declaration:
> ==> default: ---------------------
> ==> default: # In
> /tmp/vagrant-chef/8c7b6c4971128a90594d5194827546c6/cookbooks/repository/recipes/incoming.rb
> ==> default:
> ==> default:  30: ruby_block 'Repository - Process incoming' do
> ==> default:  31:   action :nothing
> ==> default:  32:   block do
> ==> default:  33:
> Dir.glob(File.join(node[:repository][:incoming][:directory], '*.deb')).each
> do |deb_file|
> ==> default:  34:       r = Chef::Resource::Repository.new(deb_file,
> run_context)
> ==> default:  35:       r.action :nothing
> ==> default:  36:       r.repository node[:repository][:incoming][:name]
> ==> default:  37:       r.run_action(:add)
> ==> default:  38:     end
> ==> default:  39:   end
> ==> default:  40:   only_if do
> ==> default:  41:
> File.directory?(node[:repository][:incoming][:directory])
> ==> default:  42:   end
> ==> default:  43: end
>
> I've been digging around and I can't even find the
> Chef::Resource::Repository resource, so I have no idea what's going on. Any
> idea? Or, is there a better community cookbook for managing a private apt
> repository?
>
> Doug
>