[chef] Re: Avoiding CHEF-3694

[Joseph Holsten < >]

That is not what you want. You want to a package resource, for the package 
chrpath, with action install, and the latest version available. No extra 
flags to the package installer.

Just because someone else defined a package[chrpath] resource doesn't mean 
any of the rest of that is true. They may using the remove action.

CHEF-3694 just says: you've got multiple attempts to define a resource. The 
only way to guarantee that those two attempts play nice is to use a good olde 
fashioned eyeball, figure out what the intersecting requirements are, and 
only do that once.

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http://josephholsten.com

On Jun 10, 2013, at 4:29, Alex Kiernan 
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 >
 wrote:

> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Alex Kiernan