[chef] Re: Re: CHEF-4579: should package action install also upgrade?

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Brian Hatfield 
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 wrote:
> No. I strongly object to this.
>
> action :upgrade exists and is sufficient.
>
> If action :install performed upgrades, it would absolutely destroy things,
> for example running MongoDB using the 10gen repos and having a 2.2 database
> upgrade to 2.4 behind your back, etc.

The question is a bit higher level than that surrounding the entire
semantics of package, not simply should install also upgrade.

You could have attributes to control it.

# installs but doesn't upgrade
package "mongodb" do
  action :install
  upgrade false
end

# installs and upgrades
package "mongodb" do
  action :install
end

# only upgrade, won't install
package "mongodb" do
  action :upgrade
end

Bryan