[chef] Re: Providers

[Sean OMeara < >]

Hi.

In modern Chef, you should be able to get away with this:

https://gist.github.com/someara/221fcefd7642c47e5032

The only time you need to call "updated_by_last_action" in a provider is when you're using "pure ruby" to modify system state. If you're just using embedded Chef resources like that, the update is handled automatically by the use_inline_resources line.

-s

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Kim Nielsen < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

I have been playing with a logrotate cookbook where I want to generated logrotate.conf delayed due to other cookbooks input. But for some reason I can't seem to trigger a provider

resources/logrotate.rb
actions :create
default_action :create

def initialize(*args)
    super
    @action = ":create_logrotate_conf end

providers/logrotate.rb
def whyrun_supported?
      true
end

use_inline_resources

def generate_logrotate_conf
    t = template "/etc/logrotate.conf" do
        source "logrotate.conf.erb"
        mode "0644"
    end
end

action :create do
    Chef::Log.warn "------ never run -----------"
   generate_logrotate_conf
end


and in my recipe I have I'm running a definition like so

        logrotate "#{curfile}" do
            enabled node['logrotate']["#{curfile}"]['enabled']
            logs node['logrotate']["#{curfile}"]['logs']
            options node['logrotate']["#{curfile}"]['options']
            ifpostrotate node['logrotate']["#{curfile}"]['ifpostrotate']
            postrotate node['logrotate']["#{curfile}"]['postrotate']
            ifprerotate node['logrotate']["#{curfile}"]['ifprerotate']
            prerotate node['logrotate']["#{curfile}"]['prerotate']
            action :create
        end

Can anyone point me to what I'm doing wrong or if there is a better way to create the logrotate.conf file when all other cookbooks are done using?

--
Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards

Kim Nielsen