[SOLVED] chef - making yum localinstall of cookbook_file

Issue

I have some certain rpm's that need to be moved to a box, and yum localinstall'ed there.

Now I know how to make notifies for upon file creation yum would install something from repo, but I don't know how to specify source in this case.

So for now, I have the following:

cookbook_file "mksh-39-5.el6.x86_64.rpm" do
        path "/tmp/mksh-39-5.el6.x86_64.rpm"
        action :create
end

package "mksh-39-5.el6.x86_64.rpm" do
        source "/tmp/mksh-39-5.el6.x86_64.rpm"
        action :install
end

The question is - how do I bind them, so that installation would be called upon file creation?

Solution

The brief answer is "use notifications" but as you talk about many files I would loop over a list like this:

['mksh-39-5.el6.x86_64.rpm','package2.rpm'].each do |p| # start from an array of packages, could be an attributes like node['my_namespace']['packages']
  package p do # no need to do interpolation here, we just need the name
    source "/tmp/#{p}" # Here we have to concatenate path and name
    action :nothing # do nothing, just define the resource
  end

  cookbook_file "/tmp/#{p}" do # I prefer setting the destination in the name
    source p                   # and tell the source name, so in case of different platfom I can take advantage of the resolution of files withint the cookbook tree
    action :create 
    notifies :install, "package[/tmp/#{p}]", :immediately 
  end
end

The :immediately is to fire the package install as soon as the file has been placed, if there's dependencies, you'll have to manage the order of the packages in the array

Answered By - Tensibai

Answer Checked By - Pedro (WPSolving Volunteer)