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

["Jason J. W. Williams" < >]

Is there a way to iterate the files list through the API? Do templates follow the same rule?

-J

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On Sep 25, 2011, at 13:44, Joshua Timberman < "> > wrote:

Hello,

On Sep 24, 2011, at 17:06, "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.

Chef only downloads cookbook_file and template assets if it needs to render the target file. Otherwise they are cleaned up at the end of the chef run.