[chef] Re: Re: Checking for the existance of a package

[Sölvi Páll Ásgeirsson < >]

Hi,

Thanks, yeah - that's what I'm trying to do. :)
The issue is however that I don't understand what I should pass as a
parameter to not_if, to ask the provider if a package is installed.

regards,
Sölvi

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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 wrote:
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> On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Sölvi Páll Ásgeirsson wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I'm new with Chef(and ruby), please excuse me if I'm just being thick.
>
> I'm using the windows_feature provider from the windows cookbook to
> install roles on a Windows 2012 server.
> On W2012 however, you cannot install .Net framework 3.5 without
> providing some installation sources.
> So far, I work around that by using remote_directory and by shelling
> out to cmd, something like:
> https://gist.github.com/solvip/c07e032ff7858aa53932
> I'd like to skip the remote_directory copy when the feature has been
> installed, however, so my question is:
>
> Is there no way to simply check if some feature/package is installed?
> The provider implements the method 'installed?'. Can I not call it
> somehow from my recipes?
>
> I'm not very familiar with the Windows stuff, but it seems like you should
> be able to get the desired behavior with either `not_if` (and `only_if`) or
> notifications. Those are documented at the top of this page:
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> http://docs.opscode.com/chef/resources.html
>
>
>
> Thanks alot!
>
> regards,
> Sölvi Páll Á.
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>
>
> --
> Daniel DeLeo
>