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

[Jason Boxman < >]

Interesting idea.  Thanks!

I decided to check the sanity of my overall approach instead.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Daniel DeLeo 
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 wrote:
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> On Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Jason Boxman wrote:
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> 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:
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>     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,
>
> --
> Daniel DeLeo



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