[chef-dev] Re: need help fixing CHEF-2345 unable to override supports :status for redhat services

[John Vincent < >]

Would an ||= work in that case? I've not dug into the providers in
quite some time.

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:26 AM, KC Braunschweig
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 wrote:
> Hoping you guys can help me as I couldn't quite come up with a fix for
> this bug. I think the desired feature was that :status should default
> to true for Redhat rather than false with other providers, but because
> lib/chef/provider/service/redhat.rb does:
>
> @new_resource.supports[:status] = true
>
> The effect is that :status always = true and you can't set it to false
> such as if you have a misbehaving 3rd party init script you can't fix.
> This is lame. Problem is that the defaults come from the resource code
> not the provider so I think that the way to fix this is in
> lib/chef/resource/service.rb when the defaults are set:
>
> @supports = { :restart => false, :reload => false, :status => false }
>
> But to do this I need to inspect the provider to know if we're on
> redhat, something like:
>
> if provider == 'Chef::Provider::Service::Redhat'
> 
 
>  = { :restart => false, :reload => false, :status => true }
> else
> 
 
>  = { :restart => false, :reload => false, :status => false }
> end
>
> But provider is nil at that point. Tried calling straight to
> Chef::Platform.provider_for_resource(self) but that doesn't work
> either because the run_context isn't set at that point.
>
> Anyone got another angle or a way to make this work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> KC