Installing Tomcat6 using Opscode cookbook on CentOS 5.10

Question

I'm trying to install tomcat6 using opscode chef cookbook. I get following error.

Recipe: tomcat::default
  * package[tomcat6] action install
    * No version specified, and no candidate version available for tomcat6
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Error executing action `install` on resource 'package[tomcat6]'
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Chef::Exceptions::Package
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No version specified, and no candidate version available for tomcat6

Apparently there is no package named tomcat6 when I try yum install tomcat6. How to fix this ? I tried adding yum and yum-epel cookbooks but they are not a solution as they over-write my yum files. Is there a way I can source the tomcat package from a zip file in a URL and install using that by modifying opscode cookbook ?

Answer 1

wrap that ospcode cookbook into yours and add following execution before invoking that tomcat::default

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget 'http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage50.repo'
yum update

Answer 2

to have available the tomcat6 package you got to add the jpackage repository. I made a cookbook to add the repository in the rhel family.

https://github.com/psyreactor/yum-jpackage-cookbook

Just include yum-jpackage in your node's run_list.

In the readme.md are detail settings

sorry for my English best regards