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Creating a Custom dpkg Search Index for Chef 0.7.x
I wanted to search across all my nodes that they have the latest Chef client package installed. The default indexer doesn’t index installed debian packages, so I whipped out a custom dpkg indexer based on the sample code from the wiki.
Here it is:
It’s a lot longer than the sample because I had to do the whole client authentication dance (most of it was copied directly from lib/chef/client.rb). Good news is that authentication will change dramatically in the upcoming Chef 0.8.x release which should simplify creating custom clients.
Once you run the indexer, your search screen on chef-server will now see a new query form for dpkg. Here’s an example of querying for packages that match the name attribute “chef” and returning only the “version” and “status” attributes.
