[chef] Package resource - install multiple packages together?

[Kevin Keane (subscriptions) < >]

Title: Package resource - install multiple packages together?

I'm trying to figure out a way to use the package resource to install several packages together, all from files (I'm using CentOS, so the underlying mechanism is yum).

 

The problem I'm having is that a few of the packages have circular dependencies. So I cannot use the trivial approach:

 

packages.each do |pkg|
    package "#{pkg}" do
       action :install
       source "#{dir}/#{dirname}/#{pkg}-*.#{arch}.rpm"
    end
end
 

Is there a way to do something like this instead:

 

package "mypackages" do

   action :install

   source ["#{dir}/#{dirname}/#{pkg1}-*.#{arch}.rpm", "#{dir}/#{dirname}/#{pkg2}-*.#{arch}.rpm" ]
end

Thanks!