Wsrtjtyk

I have a cookbook that installs several RPM packages through the use of the package Chef resource:

%w(

  nfs-utils

  autofs

  # etc.

  # etc.

  # etc.

).each do |pkg|



package pkg

I often have problems downloading the files from the server due to network glitches. I see that the packages are compiled as yum_packages:

Resource Declaration:

---------------------

# In /downloads/chef/cache/cookbooks/my_cookbook/recipes/default.rb



65: package pkg

66: 



Compiled Resource:

------------------

# Declared in /downloads/chef/cache/cookbooks/my_cookbook/recipes/default.rb:65:in `block in from_file'



yum_package("nfs-utils") do

 package_name "nfs-utils"

 action [:install]

 retries 0

 retry_delay 2

 default_guard_interpreter :default

 declared_type :package

 cookbook_name "my_cookbook"

 recipe_name "default"

 flush_cache {:before=>false, :after=>false}

end



Platform:

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x86_64-linux

I would like to use the retries option which is available with yum_package, but not available through the generic package resource. Is that possible? (I can't change from package to yum_package explicitly, though).