[chef] Re: Re: yum groupinstall

[gregory grey < >]

Eh, handling response?

In the nutshell - we have yum, we just need another set of logic for arguments after groupinstall.

2014-11-27 0:22 GMT+02:00 Noah Kantrowitz < " target="_blank"> >:

On Nov 26, 2014, at 5:14 PM, gregory grey < "> > 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