[chef] Re: Updating PATH on windows for use in subsequent recipes

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

We do it in the 'php' cookbook like this:

https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/php/blob/master/recipes/package.rb#L54-L55

- Julian

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen 
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 wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there a way to force reload of the PATH variable on windows?
>
> We install git & nodejs and then tries to install some npm packages from a
> git repo.
>
> But in the initial run, npm cannot find git because the current process'
> PATH is not updated.
>
> Starting a new shell and running chef-client solves the issue, but this is
> of course less than ideal.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> /Jeppe
>
>
>



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