Using "subscribes" in recipes

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Hi, I’m trying to make a modification to a package that is installed by several
different recipes.

Since I’m trying not to modify the the cookbook directly, I believe the best
way to do this is to create a recipe with some actions that include a
"subscribes" line. After reading the documentation, some googling, and a number
of attempts, I’m still a bit unclear on how to do this.

Any tips on how to do this correctly would be appreciated. Here’s what I’ve
tried so far:

In main cookbook

package “tomcat” do
action :install
end

In my (simplified) recipe

directory “/bigdrive/tomcat/tmp” do
owner node[‘tomcat’][‘user’]
group node[‘tomcat’][‘group’]
mode 0755
action :create
subscribes :install, resources(“packages[tomcat]”), :immediately
end

Update configuration

ruby_block “update_tomcat_defaults” do
block do
file =
Chef::Util::FileEdit.new("/etc/default/tomcat#{node[“tomcat”][“base_version”]}")
props = [ “export JVM_TMP=”/bigdrive/tomcat/tmp"" ]
file.insert_line_after_match(/LANG=/, props.join("\n"))
file.write_file
end
subscribes :install, resources(“packages[tomcat]”), :immediately
end

2

try

subscribes :install, 'package[tomcat]', :immediately

Cheers,

AJ

On 6 May 2013 00:03, chef-list@seren.net wrote:

Hi, I'm trying to make a modification to a package that is installed by several
different recipes.

Since I'm trying not to modify the the cookbook directly, I believe the best
way to do this is to create a recipe with some actions that include a
"subscribes" line. After reading the documentation, some googling, and a number
of attempts, I'm still a bit unclear on how to do this.

Any tips on how to do this correctly would be appreciated. Here's what I've
tried so far:

In main cookbook

package "tomcat" do
action :install
end

In my (simplified) recipe

directory "/bigdrive/tomcat/tmp" do
owner node['tomcat']['user']
group node['tomcat']['group']
mode 0755
action :create
subscribes :install, resources("packages[tomcat]"), :immediately
end

Update configuration

ruby_block "update_tomcat_defaults" do
block do
file =
Chef::Util::FileEdit.new("/etc/default/tomcat#{node["tomcat"]["base_version"]}")
props = [ "export JVM_TMP="/bigdrive/tomcat/tmp"" ]
file.insert_line_after_match(/LANG=/, props.join("\n"))
file.write_file
end
subscribes :install, resources("packages[tomcat]"), :immediately
end