[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Best Practice Performing Upgrade and Uninstall

[Seth Falcon < >]

 writes:
> Yes, I know the "package" resource, but the prerequisite is that I have
> pack my own source code into a .deb package or .rpm package.
>
> But if the software is developed by myself, I did not pack the source code,
> and it do not exist in any package repository.
>
> What is the common practice on this situation?

If you have non-packaged code that you want to cleanup, I'd recommend
creating a cleanup recipe that removes it (perhaps stopping a service,
removing files and directories, etc).

For non-packaged things, it is hard to make a general uninstall
solution, so the common practice, if you can call it that, is custom
uninstall recipes.

+ seth

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