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Using files with wrapper cookbook and recipes defined in parent cookbook

My chef run recently throws this error:

Chef Client failed. 22 resources updated in 90.306407696 seconds
[2014-12-19T19:47:24+00:00] ERROR: cookbook_file[/srv/mycookbook/static/a.png] (mycookbook::_deploy line 82) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound: Cookbook 'mycookbook' (0.4.5) does not contain a file at any of these locations:
  files/ubuntu-12.04/static/a.png
  files/ubuntu/static/a.png
  files/default/static/a.png

This cookbook _does_ contain: ['a.css','b.html','c.html']

That's because the main cookbook mycookbook (which I don't own) has these lines:

node['myattributes']['theme']['static_files'].each do |file|
  cookbook_file node['myattributes']['install_dir'] + "/static/" + file do
    source "static/#{file}"
    owner node['myattributes']['user']
    group node['myattributes']['group']
    cookbook node['myattributes']['theme']['source_cookbook']
  end
end

but my child or wrapper cookbook which uses mycookbook has these lines with different attributes and failed:

override['myattributes']['theme']['compile_files'] = ['a.html']
override['myattributes']['theme']['static_files'] = ['a.png']

And I have these files store under my wrapper cookbook files/default/static/ and files/default/etc/

I already know what the problem is. My wrapper cookbook don't have some files expected by mycookbook, but why would I ? These attributes should be overriden anyway.

My question is there a better way to handle the files checked under files/default that the recipe definitions are defined in the parent cookbook, and the wrapper cookbook just define different set of attributes with different files?

Solution

  • You need to set node['myattributes']['theme']['source_cookbook'] to `then name of your wrapper cookbook so it looks in the correct cookbook.