[chef] Re: Re: reload ohai plugins from provider?

[Wes Morgan < >]

This ended up working:

    ohai_plugins = Chef::Resource::Ohai.new("custom_plugins", run_context)
    ohai_plugins.run_action(:reload)


Wes

On Aug 4, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Ash Berlin 
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 wrote:

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> On 4 Aug 2012, at 19:49, Wes Morgan wrote:
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>> I have a provider that changes some ohai plugin provided attributes. How 
>> can I tell ohai to reload its plugins from the provider? `notifies 
>> :reload, "ohai[custom_plugins]", :immediately` doesn't seem to work there.
>> 
>> Wes
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> 
> I haven't used an ohai plugin myself but I think the nginx cookbook does it 
> by simply including the ohai receipe 
> (https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/nginx/blob/master/recipes/ohai_plugin.rb
>  ) which in turn delegates to
> 
> https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/ohai/blob/master/recipes/default.rb
> 
> However I suspect this won't work correctly if this happens more than once 
> during a run - you might be able to get around it via a ruby block resource
> 
> -ash
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