Description

Install perforce (client and/or server) with a config file sourced in the user's shell profile.

Requirements

Chef 11

Attributes

p4 (client)

• owner - System user in who's home directory the configs will be stored. File permissions use this user as well.
• group - System group of the owner above.
• bin_dir - Where the p4 executable will be placed.
• config_filename - Configuration file name.
• host - Perforce server hostname.
• port_num - Port number of Perforce Server.
• port - Perforce server (eg. perforce-server:1666).
• user - Perforce user. Defaults to owner.
• password - Perforce password.
• diff
• editor
• merge
• client
• charset
• commandcharset
• language
• version - Perforce client version.

p4d (server)

• owner] - Owner of the p4d executable.
• group - Group of the p4d executable.
• bin_dir - Where the p4d executable will be placed.
• journal - Contains 3 attributes
  • enabled - Whether journaling is active.
  • dir - The directory in which the journal file will be stored in.
  • file - The journal file name.
• log_dir - The directory in which the log file will be stored.
• log_file - The log file name
• audit - Contains 3 attributes
  • enabled - Whether audit is active.
  • dir - The directory in which the audit file will be stored in.
  • file - The audit file name.
• root_dir - The Perforce root directory where the db and depot files are stored.
• depot_dir - Split the depots by symbolically linking them to a different directory. If this is not wanted, set the value to the value of the root_dir.
• depots - Creates and symbolically links the depot folders. This will only occur if the root_dir and depot_dir values differ.
• port - What port the Perforce server should run on.
• version - What version of the server to install.
• pidfile - The path to the pidfile.

Usage

Include the recipe and set the attributes above as node or environment attributes

include_recipe 'perforce'

Authors

• Author:: Antek Baranski antek.baranski@gmail.com

• Author:: Brandon Chothia brandon@roblox.com

• Author:: Josiah Kiehl josiah@bluepojo.com

• Author:: Kyle Allan kallan@riotgames.com

• Copyright:: 2014, Antek Baranski

• Copyright:: 2013, Roblox, Inc

• Copyright:: 2012, Riot Games