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

[Alex Kiernan < >]

So something like collect all the ones we've used in a global variable
and then clean up the rest at the end? Is there a way of hooking into
"the end" or should I just have a recipe I run last?

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Adam Jacob 
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> I would just extend your tomcat installation cookbook to clean up the
> old ones idempotently.
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> Adam
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> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Alex Kiernan 
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>> 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.
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>> 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...
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>> Or am I missing something and making this more work than needed!
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>> --
>> Alex Kiernan
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