[chef] Re: Re: Re: Yum package provider always succeeding

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Jason Boxman wrote:

Sure, but I am using the community cookbooks for several things and no

version is set for those; I certainly could modify each recipe in

turn, but I wanted to avoid that.

I'm not sure it's any better than modifying the recipes, but you can get a reference to a previously defined resource with code like this:

    pkg = resources(:package => "tmux")

And then you can set a version on it:

    pkg.version("1.2.3")

Or set `ignore_failure(true)` on it.

One way to structure this is to have a local cookbook that depends on the upstream one, and runs the upstream cookbook via `include_recipe`. After the `include_recipe` statement, use code like the above to modify the resources in question.

HTH,

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Daniel DeLeo