[chef] Re: Passing responses back to Chef?

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Aug 6, 2013, at 2:00 PM, Matt Ray 
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> This is where you'd want to use mixlib-shellout in your recipes. It 
> captures all the stdout and stderr on a command, you can then process it in 
> Ruby. Take a look at this example.
> https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/pxe_dust/blob/master/recipes/bootstrap_template.rb#L33
> https://github.com/opscode/mixlib-shellout

Okay, so now I've got that mostly working, but I'm getting an error when I 
try to send a notification to install a package resource:

[2013-08-06T15:03:18-05:00] INFO: Processing ruby_block[find closest matching 
full version for mysql-server to desired version] action create 
(brad_mysql::server line 53)
[2013-08-06T15:03:18-05:00] DEBUG: aptitude show mysql-server=5.1 | grep 
'^Version: ' | sed 's/^Version: //' | grep "^5.1"
[2013-08-06T15:03:19-05:00] DEBUG: 5.1.70-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

[2013-08-06T15:03:19-05:00] INFO: ruby_block[find closest matching full 
version for mysql-server to desired version] called
[2013-08-06T15:03:19-05:00] INFO: ruby_block[find closest matching full 
version for mysql-server to desired version] sending install action to 
package[mysql-server] (immediate)
[2013-08-06T15:03:19-05:00] DEBUG: Re-raising exception: NoMethodError - 
undefined method `run_action' for "package[mysql-server]":String


Is this a feature that is only available in newer versions of chef-client and 
chef-solo? We're using 10.18.2 at the moment, and I know that the website has 
been updated to reflect the latest 11.x versions, so I'm not sure if I'm 
running into a known problem here.

Thanks!

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