[chef] Re: Using report handlers to remove old files

[Adam Jacob < >]

I would just extend your tomcat installation cookbook to clean up the
old ones idempotently.

Adam

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Alex Kiernan 
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 wrote:
> We've accumulated a load of tomcat installations and having refactored
> our installations of it so it's now a single definition which installs
> the version of tomcat you asked for (so you drop it into the recipe
> you want it in) I now want to clean up all the unused ones.
>
> My thinking is to add a report handler which figures out which
> versions of tomcat we actually used in a run, drop that to a file
> somewhere locally and then use that file next time around to clean up
> all the dead ones...
>
> Or am I missing something and making this more work than needed!
>
> --
> Alex Kiernan
>



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