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

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

When do templates get cached? When the cookbook is loaded or when the
template is first called?

-J

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Joshua Timberman 
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 wrote:
> Hello,
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> On Sep 24, 2011, at 17:06, "Jason J. W. Williams"
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>  wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.