As far as I’m aware, yes, that’s unnecessary. We’ve not had any difficulty ourselves, but, as always, YMMV.
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Jeff Byrnes
@berkleebassist
Lead DevOps Engineer
EverTrue
704.516.4628
On January 14, 2015 at 1:28:39 PM, Greg Barker (fletch@fletchowns.net) wrote:
Thanks Jeff. It seems like that’s how they thought it should work, but they also had to duplicate that logic from the java cookbook to set the java_home and openjdk_packages attributes, because of the way attributes are loaded. Are you saying that is unnecessary?
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 6:29 AM, Jeff Byrnes jeff@evertrue.com wrote:
We use the Java cookbook all the time, and this, in your cookbook’s attributes/default.rb should be sufficient (works well for us):
default[‘java’][‘install_flavor’] = 'oracle’
default[‘java’][‘jdk_version’] = '7’
default[‘java’][‘oracle’][‘accept_oracle_download_terms’] = true
You’ll need to also include_recipe ‘java’ in your recipe somewhere as well, but that’s all that should be needed.
Of course, change the values to suit, and you don’t need the node[‘java’][‘oracle’][‘accept_oracle_download_terms’] attribute if you’re not using Oracle’s JDK.
This is how the Java cookbook is designed to work, and we have no trouble at all using it this way.
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Jeff Byrnes
@berkleebassist
Lead DevOps Engineer
EverTrue
704.516.4628
On January 13, 2015 at 9:15:30 PM, Greg Barker (fletch@fletchowns.net) wrote:
Nexus cookbook leverages the Java cookbook, but Nexus requires at least Java 7.
I came across this code & comment and while it worked, they didn’t seem happy with the solution.
I’m curious if there’s a better way to handle this scenario?
Thanks!
Greg