[chef] Re: Listing files in cookbook/files/default/

[Denis Barishev < >]

Hey,

On 09/25/2011 03:06 AM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> Is there a better way to dynamically list the contents of the
> <cookbook>/files/default/ directory from a recipe at runtime than
> inspecting that path in /var/chef/cache/cookbooks ?
>
> My concern is that the Chef sometimes removes files from the cache
> that are in the cookbook but it doesn't consider currently needed.
> Thank you in advance.

I can't say anything about a better way than listing. But I can't agree 
that it doesn't cconsider if file is needed. Unless you remove a file 
resource that uses /files/default/* the file will persist in the node cache.
Maybe you could think of defining a file resource with action :nothing 
that obviously can help to solve the problem.

Denis

> -J