[chef] Re: windows_package for Notepad++ not updating

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Arthur Penn 
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 wrote:

> 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?

This is where Windows' not having a real native package manager really
stinks. There's no uniform way to to do it.

I imagine you could inspect the registry to see what version of
Notepad++ was installed, if the registry stores that information, and
attempt to do something based on that.

- Julian

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