[[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] new package resource action :reconfig

RanjibDey 
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> Exactly same question i have; how it will be idempotent ? to me this is
> equivalent to  `yum reinstall <package>`. It cant be idempotent by
> definition. Generally i do this kinds of one time task using `knife
> ssh`.  

I don't know about yum, but for apt we could make it idempotent with a
debconf provider that would use debconf-show and
debconf-set-selections

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Laurent