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

[Alex Kiernan < >]

I've explained it poorly... we're doing one tomcat instance per app,
then multiple tomcat instances/apps per host, and each of those
tomcats can be different versions - the definition goes something like
this:

apache_tomcat "tomcat 6.0.32" do
  version "6.0.32"
...
end

We install each of those into /opt (catalina_home) and then have an
individual instance for the app in /srv (catalina_base). The
definition then gets referenced in individual recipes which deploy
both the catalina_home piece (if needed) and the catalina_base piece.

It's cleaning up those in /opt which aren't referenced by the end of
the run which I'm trying to clean up.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Adam Jacob 
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> 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:
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>> 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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>> > Adam Jacob, Chief Product Officer
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