[chef-dev] Re: COOK-3276 - change attributes from normal to default

[Mike < >]

What's the risk of leaving these node attributes there?
Especially if I've set normal/override level attributes for chef
client in other instances, is this operation considered 100% safe?

-M

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Joshua Timberman 
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 wrote:
> Ohai Chefs,
>
> We just merged COOK-3276, which changes the attribute setting in the 
> various service recipes to `node.default` instead of `node.set` (#normal). 
> After this change you may have unnecessary attribute settings on your 
> nodes, which can be removed using knife exec. The :all argument to 
> transform will modify all nodes. The argument can be a search query (e.g., 
> "chef_environment:dev").
>
> knife exec -E "nodes.transform(:all) {|n| 
> n.normal['chef_client'].delete('bin') }"
>
> One could also delete the `chef_client` attribute tree entirely, since 
> there shouldn't be any other "normal" level attributes set.
>
> knife exec -E "nodes.transform(:all) {|n| n.normal.delete('chef_client') }"
>
> COOK-3276 isn't in the current version, only on the master branch, but this 
> will be in an upcoming release of the cookbook.
>
> Cheers,
> Joshua