[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Problem with chef-solo

[Jeppe Nejsum Madsen < >]

Adam Jacob 
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> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen 
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>> Now that I know what the problem is, it's not a big deal to do an rm
>> -rf before running, but is there a reason why chef-solo can't just
>> wipe the file_cache_path before extracting the cookbooks?
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> Hrm - I kind of look at solo as being pretty heavy on the 'roll your
> own' end of things, in terms of exactly what you want the behavior to
> be.  

Fair enough

> It would be consistent with the way the chef-client works to go ahead
> and wipe the cache first, but I can see a world where you *want* to
> keep cookbooks around (for example, you want to actually pull from
> multiple sources, and clean up after.)

Yeah, that (sort of) makes sense. I would think the better approach
though would be to combine the multiple sources first, then call
chef-solo.

> I think we would be happy to accept a patch that lets this be a
> configuration/command line option.

Point taken :-) I'll see what I can do at some point....

/Jeppe