[chef] Re: yum groupinstall

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Nov 26, 2014, at 5:14 PM, gregory grey 
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 wrote:

> Hi guys,
> We don't have groupinstall available. I re-raised issue on github, since it 
> was open in Jira. No feedback since. 
> 
> Can someone advice if it's a worthy idea to write this?
> I've got some time and desire to do it, but only if it's needed - yum 
> provider functionality is huge, and it needs a lot of work to include 
> metapackages...

groupinstall isn't idempotent so it makes no sense as a resource, your best 
bet is to just use an execute resource:

execute 'yum groupinstall whatever' do
  user 'root'
end

--Noah

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