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

[Adam Jacob < >]

I don't know that it needs to happen at the end, honestly. Just have the 
tomcat cookbook deploy the right version, and then add whatever logic you 
need to clean up the old ones, and move along.

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On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Alex Kiernan wrote:

> 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.
> > > 
> > > 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!
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