[chef] Re: Missing Notification from LWRP

[Jake Vanderdray < >]

Kevin,

   I suspect you're hitting this bug:
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2404.

Jake.

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Kevin Christen
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 wrote:
> Chef 0.10.8. I have an LWRP for the package resource that doesn't send
> notifications. I have a very simple test case that demonstrates the problem.
> Here is the LWRP, from file cookbooks/test/providers/my_package.rb:
>
> action :install do
>   Chef::Log.info("installing #{new_resource.name}")
> end
>
> Here is my recipe:
>
> package "the_package" do
>   provider :test_my_package
>   notifies :create, "ruby_block[the_observer]"
> end
>
> ruby_block "the_observer" do
>   block do
>     Chef::Log.info("the observer has been notified")
>   end
>   action :nothing
> end
>
> Here is the result:
>
> ...
> [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:02:04 -0600] INFO: Processing package[the_package]
> action install (test::the_package line 1)
> [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:02:04 -0600] INFO: installing the_package
> [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:02:04 -0600] INFO: Processing ruby_block[the_observer]
> action nothing (test::the_package line 6)
> [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:02:04 -0600] INFO: Chef Run complete in 0.006884
> seconds
> [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:02:04 -0600] INFO: Running report handlers
> [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:02:04 -0600] INFO: Report handlers complete
>
> I expect the install action of the package to send a create notification to
> the ruby block, which would print "the observer has been notified". I have
> tried a number of variations of this test case:
>
> using subscribes instead of notifies (fails)
> adding supports :create => true on the ruby block (fails)
> using a built in provider instead of an LWRP (succeeds)
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin Christen