[chef] Re: Re: Listing chef-installed software packages

[Ranjib Dey < >]

On 07/04/2011 10:40 PM, Lee Maguire wrote:
> > > 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).
aha.. then its easy, you can use any report handlers, the report method 
invoked with a run_status object which contain updated_resources object, 
which is actually a  resource collection; you can use this collection 
and filter out only the packages that are updated or installed.
regards
ranjib

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