rhenning / chef-homebrew

Convincing Chef to use Homebrew as its native package management tool

Description¶ ↑

Installs Homebrew and acts as the native package provider for Mac OS X using Homebrew to install packages. See:

woss.name/2011/01/23/converging-your-home-directory-with-chef/

for additional background.

Requirements¶ ↑

Prerequisites¶ ↑

In order for this recipe to work, you will have to already own /usr/local. This is outside the scope of the cookbook because it’s anticipated that you’ll run the cookbook as your own user, not root and you’d have to be root to take ownership of the directory. Easiest way to get started:

sudo chown -R `whoami`:staff /usr/local

Bear in mind that this will take ownership of the entire folder and its contents, so if you’ve already got stuff in there (eg MySQL owned by a mysql user) you’ll need to be a touch more careful.

Platform¶ ↑

This is only going to work on platforms that Homebrew supports which is, I think, just Mac OS X. This cookbook has been tested on Mac OS X 10.6.6 with the latest version of Homebrew (as of Mon 24 Jan 2011 at any rate!).

Cookbooks¶ ↑

Shouldn’t require any other cookbooks, though its operation may be greatly enhanced by another cookbook I’m brewing that manages launchd. ;-)

Resources and Providers¶ ↑

This cookbook provides a package provider called homebrew_package which will install/remove packages using Homebrew. This becomes the default provider for package if your platform is Mac OS X.

Attributes¶ ↑

None.

Usage¶ ↑

Just make sure that this cookbook is selected before you start installing packages. You can add:

include_recipe 'homebrew'

to all your recipes that install packages, or you can just make sure it’s on the run list somewhere early on. The cookbook itself ensures that Homebrew is installed and up to date.

License and Author¶ ↑

Author

Graeme Mathieson (<[email protected]>)

Copyright

2011, Graeme Mathieson

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.