Description

Installs and configures nosh - a suite of system-level utilities for initializing and running a BSD or Linux system, and for managing daemons. See the upstream website for more details.

Requirements

A C++ compiler such as G++ or clang++.

Platform

• Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04

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

Cookbooks

• build-essential

Attributes

default

The following attributes are used, and we are attemping to replicate a slashpackage install with exported symlinks into /usr/local, by default.

• node['nosh']['source_url'] - The URL where the nosh package can be retrieved from
• node['nosh']['prefix'] - The location given to the export script to install binaries/manpages to.

Recipes

default

Includes the build-essential::default recipe. Builds and installs nosh in the slashpackage manner if it is not already present.

License and Author

Author:: Kevin Berry kevin@opensourcealchemist.com

Copyright 2014, Kevin Berry

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.