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

[Kenneth Barry < >]

This is how we do it. its in our base recipe for windows :)

powershell_script "Add path to appcmd to Environment PATH" do

code <<-EOB

$PathToAdd = "%windir%\\system32\\inetsrv"

$VerifiedPathsToAdd = $null

  Foreach($Path in $PathToAdd) {            

  if($env:Path -like "*$Path*") {

    }

    else { 

    $VerifiedPathsToAdd += ";$Path"

    }            

  if($VerifiedPathsToAdd -ne $null) {

    [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path",$env:Path + $VerifiedPathsToAdd,"Machine")            

    }

  }

EOB

end

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Julian C. Dunn < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

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 < "> > 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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