Cannot override "init_source" with nil as documented

[sglajchEG]

When I set the "init_source" to nil, it just uses the default value. This looks like it never would have worked?
I need to be able to provide my own init scripts, and since this cookbook doesn't do that well (doesn't let me pass my own variables in the init script I provide), I have to be able to turn off the init scripts altogether.

[martinb3]

Can you show us how you're setting init_source? It seems weird that nil would turn into 'initscript.erb', but perhaps something else is going on. There's definitely a guard checking if it's nil, that should cause it to skip writing a file in /etc/init.d.

Also, you might consider just not using the elasticsearch_service resource if you want to go ahead and do your own thing with init scripts.