- From: Edward Sargisson <
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- Subject: [chef] Re: Determining State of Affairs on Windows Nodes
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:07:28 -0700
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I don't have time to look up the references for this but the majority
of Windows apps should put their uninstall details into a known
location in the registry. I believe this is a requirement for Windows
certification.
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:01 AM,
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I am using chef to manage Windows boxes. I want my recipe to install a given
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version of an application. If the app is already installed to that version,
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I
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don't want to reinstall it. Are there best practices/built-in functionality
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for
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doing this, or do I have to roll my own? It seems like the *nix versions
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rely
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on the native package managers to handle this functionality. Note that
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"application" could be an app that gets installed in C:\Programs, or a set
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of
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DLL's that go in the GAC, etc.
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