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

[Greg Pendler < >]

Will try, thanks a lot...

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Greg Pendler

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On Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Jesse Nelson wrote:

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 < "> > wrote:

The original recipe has "rpm -e --nodeps" - i'll probably need to change

that.

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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 < "> > wrote:

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