[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: group resource always updated

[George Miranda < >]

Source for Chef Docs is available via github[1].  You can search for the affected bit of text and submit a pull request.  The change describing this problem has been committed[2] and should go live in the next build later today.

Thanks for pushing that into docs, James!

[1] https://github.com/opscode/chef-docs

[2] https://github.com/opscode/chef-docs/commit/7375fa448f37cf4488da57401d8daa9d413954a4

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Mark Selby < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I have also confirmed that this fixes the problem. What is the best way to communicate to the Chef Docs owner that it may be a good idea to update the official docs?

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:08 AM, George Miranda < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Confirmed.  Array gets the expected behavior.  Single comma separated string "works", but always updates every time.

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Ranjib Dey < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

can you try specifying memebers as an array

group "foobarbaz" do

  members ['user1', 'user2']

end

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Mark Selby < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Here are the details of what I am seeing. Please let me know if you need anymore info. I can confirm that for me with the lastest chef client I am still seeing this behavior on Ubuntu.

(test) ~ 931# cat /etc/issue.net 

Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS

(test) ~ 933# chef-client --version

Chef: 11.12.8

(test) ~ 923# grep user[0-9] /etc/passwd

user1:x:1023:1023::/home/user1:/bin/sh

user2:x:1024:1024::/home/user2:/bin/sh

(test) ~ 932# grep foobarbaz /etc/group

foobarbaz:x:1025:user1,user2

# client has a single recipe in the run list. The recipe is

group "foobarbaz" do

  members "user1,user2"

end

(test) ~ 934# chef-client          

Starting Chef Client, version 11.12.8

resolving cookbooks for run list: ["nbs_test::default"]

Synchronizing Cookbooks:

  - nbs_test

Compiling Cookbooks...

Converging 1 resources

Recipe: nbs_test::default

  * group[foobarbaz] action create

    - alter group group[foobarbaz]

    - replace group members with new list of members

Running handlers:

Running handlers complete

Chef Client finished, 1/1 resources updated in 3.549844354 seconds

# here is the debug outout of this recipe

Recipe: nbs_test::default

  * group[foobarbaz] action create[2014-07-17T15:52:47+00:00] INFO: Processing group[foobarbaz] action create (nbs_test::default line 1)

[2014-07-17T15:52:47+00:00] DEBUG: Platform ubuntu version 12.04 found

[2014-07-17T15:52:47+00:00] DEBUG: Executing groupmod foobarbaz

[2014-07-17T15:52:47+00:00] DEBUG: ---- Begin output of groupmod foobarbaz ----

[2014-07-17T15:52:47+00:00] DEBUG: STDOUT: 

[2014-07-17T15:52:47+00:00] DEBUG: STDERR: 

[2014-07-17T15:52:47+00:00] DEBUG: ---- End output of groupmod foobarbaz ----

[2014-07-17T15:52:47+00:00] DEBUG: Ran groupmod foobarbaz returned 0

[2014-07-17T15:52:47+00:00] DEBUG: group[foobarbaz] setting group members to: user1,user2

[2014-07-17T15:52:47+00:00] INFO: group[foobarbaz] altered

    - alter group group[foobarbaz]

    - replace group members with new list of members