[chef] Re: [Chef] Attribute precedence and Persistence issue.

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Mrigesh Priyadarshi
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> I am working on a requirement which states that a particular version of a
> software needs to be installed on a VM and the version could be changed as
> per the user requirement.
>
> I thought to put the default value in attribute and let it be overridden by
> the JSON attrib which can be passed on run time. It works fine but it starts
> cribbing the moment i dont pass the the JSON attrib in next run, in the
> ideal scenario the attribute should fall back to Attribute file to take the
> value.
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> But in this case it is taking up the value persisted on node which we passed
> in the JSON attrib.

Attributes are always persisted to the node object.

I'm not totally clear on your use case. Chef is for policy compliance.
If software X needs to be installed at version Y on a system, it will
continue ensuring that version Y will be on the system.

- Julian

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