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

[Adam Jacob < >]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Lee Maguire 
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>> 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.
>
> So the only way to access this information is adding report handlers to
> client.rb - it can't be done from within cookbooks?
>
> I'm trying to automatically populate the deborphan "keep" file with
> packages that have been installed by chef.

You can do the same by just enumerating the resource collection within
a recipe, and checking each resources updated? status.

That said, doing it in a report handler is probably better - it will
make sure you always catch any installed/updated packages, even in the
case of a recipe aborting with an error.

Best,
Adam

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