Using vagrant-berkshelf on my CentOS 6.5 box, I tried to specify 7 as the version of Tomcat to install:
"tomcat" => {
"base_version" => "7"
}
However, when I tried to run vagrant provision, I ran into an error:
[2014-03-21T18:23:50+00:00] ERROR: package[tomcat7] (tomcat::default line 45)
had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Package: No version specified,
and no candidate version available for tomcat7
This Opscode "Add Support for Tomcat7" bug is marked as "Fixed", but it's only shown as tested for Ubuntu 12.04. I'm not sure if that means that (a) it wasn't tested for CentOS or (b) it was never broken for CentOS.
How can I use tomcat7 on my vagrant box with Chef?
It seems that tomcat7 is not in the standard/epel repositories for centos6.5 yet.
[root@secure36 rfridman]# cat /etc/issue
CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
[root@secure36 rfridman]# yum search tomcat
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.atlanticmetro.net
* epel: mirror.symnds.com
* extras: mirror.es.its.nyu.edu
* updates: mirror.cogentco.com
==================================================================== N/S Matched: tomcat =====================================================================
tomcatjss.noarch : JSSE implementation using JSS for Tomcat
apache-tomcat-apis.noarch : Tomcat Servlet and JSP APIs
jakarta-commons-collections-tomcat5.noarch : Jakarta Commons Collection dependency for Tomcat5
jakarta-commons-dbcp-tomcat5.noarch : DBCP dependency for Tomcat5
jakarta-commons-pool-tomcat5.x86_64 : Pool dependency for Tomcat5
jglobus-ssl-proxies-tomcat.noarch : Globus Java - SSL and proxy certificate support for Tomcat
tomcat-admin-webapps.noarch : The host-manager and manager web applications for Apache Tomcat
tomcat-docs-webapp.noarch : The docs web application for Apache Tomcat
tomcat-javadoc.noarch : Javadoc generated documentation for Apache Tomcat
tomcat-jsp-2.2-api.noarch : Apache Tomcat JSP API implementation classes
tomcat-jsvc.noarch : Apache jsvc wrapper for Apache Tomcat as separate service
tomcat-lib.noarch : Libraries needed to run the Tomcat Web container
tomcat-native.x86_64 : Tomcat native library
tomcat-servlet-3.0-api.noarch : Apache Tomcat Servlet API implementation classes
tomcat-webapps.noarch : The ROOT and examples web applications for Apache Tomcat
tomcat6.noarch : Apache Servlet/JSP Engine, RI for Servlet 2.5/JSP 2.1 API
tomcat6-admin-webapps.noarch : The host-manager and manager web applications for Apache Tomcat
tomcat6-docs-webapp.noarch : The docs web application for Apache Tomcat
tomcat6-javadoc.noarch : Javadoc generated documentation for Apache Tomcat
tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api.noarch : Apache Tomcat JSP API implementation classes
tomcat6-lib.noarch : Libraries needed to run the Tomcat Web container
tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api.noarch : Apache Tomcat Servlet API implementation classes
tomcat6-webapps.noarch : The ROOT and examples web applications for Apache Tomcat
glite-security-trustmanager-tomcat6.noarch : Java trustmanager interface supporting a GSI grid name space
tomcat.noarch : Apache Servlet/JSP Engine, RI for Servlet 3.0/JSP 2.2 API
tomcat-el-2.2-api.noarch : Expression Language v1.0 API
tomcat6-el-2.1-api.noarch : Expression Language v1.0 API
You should try to compile the tomcat7 from the source, or try to find the repository with tomcat7 included and add it to your cookbooks configuration.