[chef] Re: Re: Re: Handling package removal

[Jesse Nelson < >]

This is in an execute resource, you should probably be using package
with the rpm provider which should ensure idempotence.

something like:

package "foo" do
  action :remove
  options "--nodeps"
  provider Chef::Provider::Package::Rpm
end

Untested, but should work. Wiki says the rpm provider supports passing 
options.


On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Greg Pendler 
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 wrote:
> The original recipe has "rpm -e --nodeps" - i'll probably need to change
> that.
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> --
> Greg Pendler
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> On Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Jesse Nelson wrote:
>
> If you have a package resource with a remove action nothing will
> happen unless the package is installed. I assume you have some other
> reason you want to know if the package is installed ?
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Greg Pendler 
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>  wrote:
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> Hi
>
> Forgive me if this is a newbie question, but is there a good way to check if
> a package (rpm) is installed before i remove it? I tried to search the
> archives but couldn't dig anything useful so far.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Greg
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