[chef] Re: Re: remote_directory resource does not delete files

[Jack Kordas < >]

Wow, and I actually checked the docs.  Not sure how I missed that.

Thanks
On 12/6/12 10:04 AM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:
>
> On Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 7:46 AM, 
> 
 
>  wrote:
>
>> I have a recipe using the remote_directory resource to place a
>> directory and
>> its files into a destination directory. If I remove some of the
>> source files
>> from the directory in my cookbook and re-run the chef client (solo in
>> this
>> case), I had expected files that were removed from the cookbook to be
>> removed
>> from the destination directory. This does not appear to be the case.
>> Is there
>> a better way to handle this particular use case (basically something
>> like rsync
>> with delete)?
>>
>> Jack
> Set the purge option to true.
>
> http://docs.opscode.com/resource_remote_directory.html
>
> -- 
> Daniel DeLeo
>