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

[Jeffrey Sussna < >]

A general-purpose package provider as you describe would be be most excellent. That's exactly what I was hoping already existed/assuming probably didn't. When you get around to writing it, let me know if you need testing help. In the meantime, if I come up with anything generally useful I will holler, but most likely will do the quickest/simplest hack to start.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Seth Chisamore < "> > wrote:

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.