Chef

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.16
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: Providers
• Labels:

  None
• Environment:

  Windows (for now)

The env provider can create, modify and delete system environment variables.
On Windows platforms this means we can automate the tedious manual task of:
Start -> Computer -> Properties -> Advanced System Settings -> Environment Variables
It is common for Windows services to depend on system environment variables,
not sure if this would be considered as useful on Unix platforms.

Some examples:

#create or modify JAVA_HOME
env "JAVA_HOME" do
  action :create
  value "C:\\jdk1.6"
end

#add %JAVA_HOME% to PATH
env "PATH" do
  action :modify
  delim File::PATH_SEPARATOR
  value "%JAVA_HOME%\\bin"
end

#delete "C:/foo/bin" from PATH
env "PATH" do
  action :delete
  delim File::PATH_SEPARATOR
  value "C:/foo/bin"
end

• Assignee:

  Daniel DeLeo

  Reporter:

  Doug MacEachern

• Created:

  18/May/10 4:27 AM

  Updated:

  30/Jul/10 7:23 PM

  Resolved:

  30/Jul/10 7:23 PM