[chef] Re: Package resource - install multiple packages together?

[Vladimir Girnet < >]

You can use rpm_package resource to control how local packages are installed. 

Or an execute like this:

execute "install-my-local-rpms" do

  command "rpm -I #{dir}/#{packages.join(' ')}" # assuming packages are an array

  action :run

  not_if "rpm -q <some_very_important_local_package_name>"

end

But I would recommend creating a local yum repository server, and use it for these packages and dependencies. 

On Nov 15, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Kevin Keane (subscriptions) wrote:

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!

 

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Vladimir Girnet
Infrastructure Engineer
Tacit Knowledge
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