Add alternatives resource for Linux

This comes from https://github.com/vkhatri/chef-alternatives

Signed-off-by: Tim Smith <tsmith@chef.io>

2 files changed, 52 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kitchen-tests/cookbooks/end_to_end/recipes/alternatives.rb b/kitchen-tests/cookbooks/end_to_end/recipes/alternatives.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8e0a0bb178
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kitchen-tests/cookbooks/end_to_end/recipes/alternatives.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#
+# Cookbook:: end_to_end
+# Recipe:: alternatives
+#
+
+file "/usr/local/sample-binary-1" do
+  content '#!/bin/bash
+  echo sample-binary-v1
+  '
+  mode "500"
+end
+
+file "/usr/local/sample-binary-2" do
+  content '#!/bin/bash
+  echo sample-binary-v2
+  '
+  mode "550"
+end
+
+alternatives "sample-binary v1" do
+  link_name "sample-binary"
+  path "/usr/local/sample-binary-1"
+  priority 100
+  action :install
+end
+
+alternatives "sample-binary v2" do
+  link_name "sample-binary"
+  path "/usr/local/sample-binary-2"
+  priority 101
+  action :install
+end
+
+alternatives "set sample-binary v1" do
+  link_name "sample-binary"
+  path "/usr/local/sample-binary-1"
+  action :set
+end
+
+alternatives "sample-binary-test v1" do
+  link_name "sample-binary-test"
+  path "/usr/local/sample-binary-1"
+  priority 100
+  action :install
+end
+
+alternatives "sample-binary-test v1" do
+  link_name "sample-binary-test"
+  path "/usr/local/sample-binary-1"
+  action :remove
+end
diff --git a/kitchen-tests/cookbooks/end_to_end/recipes/default.rb b/kitchen-tests/cookbooks/end_to_end/recipes/default.rb
index dc8b44cbf4..eeccb9ffd7 100644
--- a/kitchen-tests/cookbooks/end_to_end/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/kitchen-tests/cookbooks/end_to_end/recipes/default.rb
@@ -118,5 +118,5 @@ end
 end
 
 include_recipe "::chef-vault" unless includes_recipe?("end_to_end::chef-vault")
-
+include_recipe "::alternatives"
 include_recipe "::tests"