Dropbox Cookbook

A Chef cookbook for installing the Dropbox application.

Requirements

This cookbook currently requires an OS X or Windows node. While Dropbox does
distribute packages for Linux, they are kept in a different download area with
a different API than the OS X and Windows packages.

It consumes the dmg and
windows cookbooks to support
OS X and Windows installs.

Usage

Resources can be called directly, or the main recipe that uses those resources
can be added to your run_list.

Note that this cookbook only installs the Dropbox application. A username and
password will still have to be entered in the UI the first time the application
is started.

Recipes

default

Calls the dropbox resource to do a package install.

Attributes

default

A custom package URL can be provided.

default['dropbox']['package_url'] = nil

Resources

dropbox

Wraps the fetching and installation of a remote package into one main resource.

Syntax:

dropbox 'dropbox' do
    package_url 'https://somewhere.org/dropbox.dmg'
    action :install
end

Actions:

Attributes:

Providers

Chef::Provider::Dropbox

A generic provider for all non-platform-specific functionality.

Chef::Provider::Dropbox::MacOsX

Provides the Mac OS X platform support.

Chef::Provider::Dropbox::Windows

Provides the Windows platform support.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Add tests for the new feature; ensure they pass (rake)
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create a new Pull Request

License & Authors

• Author: Jonathan Hartman j@p4nt5.com

Copyright 2014 Jonathan Hartman

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
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