[chef] Re: Chef Notify Before?

[Ranjib Dey < >]

not directly . In chef resource are executed in the same order as you specify them. Given you want the package and the package depends on the file, you should specify the file resource just before the package. What is important is your file resource is idempotent. That will make the entire recipe way more simpler and readable, i.e. windows_batch "vs_20120" should have action create, but also a decent not_if/only_if guard so that it does not get executed directly.

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Gibbons, Daniel (RBI-UK) < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

 

I’m just working on a recipe and what I’d like to be able to do is if a package isn’t installed it should go and get the required files before running, something like:

 

windows_batch "unzip_vs2010" do

  code <<-EOH

  "#{zippath}" x "#{vs2010_iso_location}" -o#{vs2010_extraction_path} -r -y

  EOH

  action: nothing

end

windows_package "#{node['vs-2010']['base-display-name'] }" do

  source "#{vs2010setup}"

  options "/q /norestart /unattendfile \"#{unattendini}\""

  installer_type :custom

  action :install

  notifies :run, 'windows_batch[unzip_vs2010]', :before

end

 

Is there an easy way to do this?

 

Thanks

 

Dan

 

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