Getting cookbooks from git repo by default

[joevandyk]

Hi,

This might be asked in another ticket, but I'm not sure.

I have a git repo on github with a bunch of cookbooks in subdirectories. Right now, to use each of the custom cookbooks, I have to add a line in the Cheffile for each cookbook, like:

cookbook "fixie", :git => "https://github.com/joevandyk/chef-cookbooks", :path => "fixie"
# The above cookbook requires a bunch of other cookbooks in that git repo
cookbook "hostname", :git => "https://github.com/joevandyk/chef-cookbooks", :path => "hostname"
cookbook "apt", :git => "https://github.com/joevandyk/chef-cookbooks", :path => "apt"
# and so on for 20 more cookbooks...

I'd really like a way for librarian to search https://github.com/joevandyk/chef-cookbooks for cookbooks before it searches the default opscode one.

[rindek]

I had same issue but I found out that you can do the following:

git "https://github.com/joevandyk/chef-cookbooks"

cookbook "fixie"
cookbook "hostname"
cookbook "apt"
...

site 'http://community.opscode.com/api/v1'
cookbook 'whatevercookbookfromopscode'

I know it's 6 months late response, but maybe it'll help