[chef] Re: Re: Avoiding CHEF-3694

[Alex Kiernan < >]

Urgh, you've just made me realise resource cloning is even more insidious than I'd previously realised

On 10 Jun 2013 18:14, "Joseph Holsten" < "> > wrote:

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