[chef] windows_package for Notepad++ not updating

[Arthur Penn < >]

I have a resource defined to install Notepad++ as follows:

 

windows_package "Notepad++" do

               source 'http://download.tuxfamily.org/notepadplus/6.6.7/npp.6.6.7.Installer.exe'

               action :install

end

 

When I first deployed this, the NPP version was 6.6.6. After updating the source to 6.6.7 I noticed that it deployed 6.6.7 correctly to new nodes but did not update the nodes to which it had deployed 6.6.6. I believe the registry key used by NPP being simply “Notepad++” without the version number is the reason for the failure to update. Am I correct? Is there a solution for getting the update performed?

 

Thanks.

 

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Arthur Penn
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