Uninstall nodenv from boxen

Question

Boxen installs nodenv in /opt/boxen/nodenv. Is it ok to uninstall it simply removing the nodenv directory?

rm -rf /opt/boxen/nodenv

I wish to do a clean install, re-running boxen. I could nuke the all boxen installation, but I'm wondering if this can be done in a less dramatic way.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 23 '15 at 12:32

Looking over the repo, it looks like there's no way to perform the standard ensure => absent to remove the nodenv setup using Boxen. I've opened an issue for that, because it should be a way to ensure absent.

For now, you could:

Remove the code referencing nodenv

Probably looks like this in your manifest/site.pp:

  # node versions
  nodejs::version { 'v0.6': }
  nodejs::version { 'v0.8': }
  nodejs::version { 'v0.10': }

Add some code like this:

file {"${boxen::config::home}/nodenv":
  ensure => absent,
}

Which will make sure that the nodenv directory is absent. It's basically doing the same thing as rm -rf /opt/boxen/nodenv that you mention, but in a more idempotent and Puppet-y way.

Uninstall nodenv from boxen

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