[chef] Re: Listing chef-installed software packages

[Lee Maguire < >]

>> Is there any way, from within a recipe, to obtain an array of all the
>> system packages (e.g. via apt on debian) or ruby gems explicitly
>> installed on the node as a result of the node's current run list?
>
> I don't know if there's any clean way to do that, as the ruby gems or 
> deb package dependency is managed via apt or gem (the package manager 
> itself)

I'm not interested in the dependencies, just those that have been
explicitly installed by recipes (i.e. as the package resource).