Description

Manages installation of Erlang via packages or source.

Requirements

Chef

Chef version 0.10.10+ and Ohai 0.6.12+ are required

Platform

Tested on:

• Ubuntu 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 14.04
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (CentOS/Amazon/Scientific/Oracle) 5.11, 6.6

Notes: This cookbook has been tested on the listed platforms. It may work on other platforms with or without modification.

Cookbooks

• yum (for epel recipe)
• build-essential (for source compilation)

Attributes

• node['erlang']['gui_tools'] - whether to install the GUI tools for Erlang.
• node['erlang']['install_method'] - Erlang installation method ("package", "source", or "esl" (for Erlang Solutions packages)).
• node['erlang']['source']['version'] - Version of Erlang/OTP to install from source. "source")
• node['erlang']['source']['url'] - URL of Erlang/OTP source tarball.
• node['erlang']['source']['checksum'] - Checksum of the Erlang/OTP source tarball.
• node['erlang']['source']['build_flags'] - Build flags for compiling Erlang/OTP.
• node['erlang']['source']['cflags'] - CFLAGS for configuring Erlang/OTP.
• node['erlang']['esl']['version'] - version specifier for Erlang Solutions packages.
• node['erlang']['esl']['lsb_codename'] - override the code name used for ESL packages, useful for installing the packages on distributions that they don't make specific packages available (e.g., maverick vs precise).

Recipes

default

Manages installation of Erlang. Includes the package or source recipe depending on the value of node['erlang']['install_method'].

package

Installs Erlang from distribution packages.

source

Installs Erlang from source.

erlang_solutions

Adds Erlang Solutions' package repositories on Debian, CentOS (>5), and Fedora systems, and installs the esl-erlang package.

License and Author

• Author: Joe Williams (joe@joetify.com)
• Author: Joshua Timberman (joshua@chef.io)
• Author: Matt Ray (matt@chef.io)
• Author: Hector Castro (hector@basho.com)
• Author: Christopher Maier (cm@chef.io)

Copyright 2011-2015, Chef Software, Inc.

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

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