[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A case for 'run once' recipes

[Joel Merrick < >]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Caleb Tennis 
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> Arjuna made an example in the wiki,
> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Libraries, for an ISP scenario, that I
> still have to test. With my limited knowledge of chef at this stage it seems
> that it would rebuild everything on every run for every user. I will
> probably stand corrected here.
>
> I think you just need to spend more time with it - it'll do exactly what
> you're looking for, and if you need something that's edge-case, you can
> coerce it to do that too.
> In this case, it doesn't rebuild everything on every run for every user.  It
> just ensures that what's there is as you've specified.  If it hasn't
> changed, it won't touch it.
> I think you'll find it'll do exactly what you need.
> Caleb

I've not looked deeply into it, but would it not be possible to have a
flag which says if the account has been provisioned or not if you need
to do something exotic. I would have thought that for the most part
though, they should generally be run once



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