[chef-dev] Re: CHEF-2398 : adding a cwd attr to the link resource

[Maciej Pasternacki < >]

On Apr 15, 2012, at 13:38 , Laurent Desarmes wrote:

>>>> Could you explain why this is useful? I haven't used them in ages, so I 
>>>> can't
>>>> remember what they're good for (besides surprising me).
>>>> 
>>>> In particular, I have no idea what the example in the ticket is supposed 
>>>> to
>>>> do.
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> the example in the ticket is supposed to maintain a symbolic link in
>>> /boot called "linux" with a relative reference to "linux-3.0.0"
>>> 
>>> 
>>> to make it simple, can you see the difference between:
>>> 1) ln -s /boot/linux-3.0.0 /boot/linux
>>> vs
>>> 2) cd /boot; ln -s linux-3.0.0 linux
>> 
>> You don't need to chdir(), 1) is equivalent to in -s linux-3.0.0 
>> /boot/linux
> 
> 2) you meant.

You're right.

On Linux (and probably other Unices) it works with Chef as well - I've got 
this in my cookbooks:

# ree doesn't leave a versioned binary, which makes rake use system one.
link "/usr/local/bin/ruby1.8" do
  to "ruby"
end

-- M