My story

I want to add a line to the /etc/apache2/envvars. However I did not install this file using a cookbook. I installed it by package apach2. So partial template does not work for me.

I usds FileEdit instead

Having look through the apache2 cookbook, I start to feel chef cookbook replicates a lot of what a dpkg is currently doing. Does it mean the downstream maintainer have to keep the cookbook up to date with various package management systems on every other platform?

Resource and Documentation

https://github.com/danielsdeleo/partials

https://docs.chef.io/resource_template.html#partial-templates