[chef] Avoiding CHEF-3694

[Alex Kiernan < >]

What's the right way to avoid CHEF-3694 for the simple case of prerequiste packages?

I'm about to build an oracle instantclient cookbook so I can fold it into the database cookbook, but I want chrpath installed so I can fix up the path in sqlplus.

I could do:

begin

  resources('package[chrpath]')

rescue Chef::Exceptions::ResourceNotFound

  package 'chrpath'

end

But it feels kinda ugly... am I missing something?

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Alex Kiernan