[chef] Re: Determining State of Affairs on Windows Nodes

[Seth Chisamore < >]

Currently there is no 'package' provider for Windows. I would recommend 
creating an LWRP that encapsulates what installing an application means to 
your infrastructure. 

I have plans to create a more generalized windows_package LWRP that works 
with any windows installer system that can be 'uninstalled'...(ie windows 
installer, inno, msi, nsis etc). Should pick up work on that following 
Velocity.

Seth

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On Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 12:01 PM, 

 
 wrote:

> I am using chef to manage Windows boxes. I want my recipe to install a given
> version of an application. If the app is already installed to that version, 
> I
> don't want to reinstall it. Are there best practices/built-in functionality 
> for
> doing this, or do I have to roll my own? It seems like the *nix versions 
> rely
> on the native package managers to handle this functionality. Note that
> "application" could be an app that gets installed in C:\Programs, or a set 
> of
> DLL's that go in the GAC, etc.