Document how to uninstall chefdk

[rberger]

It would also be helpful if there was documentation (or better yet an uninstaller app) on how to uninstall ChefDK. I know you can generally just rm -rf /opt/chefdk but there are those pesky symlinks in /usr/bin. Are there any other changes that need to be removed?

It would help remove the unease of installing something that might break existing setups if we knew that we could uninstall it so that the install/uninstall would not break any other styles of installation.

[danielsdeleo]

There will be an uninstall script in a future release. For now, you want to loop over the executables in /opt/chefdk/bin and remove the corresponding symlinks in /usr/bin/. Then you can rm -rf /opt/chefdk and finally pkgutil --forget com.getchef.pkg.chefdk to remove it from the package database. Side note, it would be cool if OS X had an uninstaller.

[yveslaroche]

@rberger On Mac OSX ChefDK can now be installed with homebrew cask. You can uninstall it with brew cask uninstall chefdk, which will remove the symlinks and com.getchef.pkg.chefdk.

[otukutun]

I made uninstall script for Mac OS.

https://gist.github.com/otukutun/0106977649dd765eb9b7

[justinredd]

I recommend you also clear out the chefdk's ruby in your user directory. rm -rf ~/.chefdk/ should do the trick.

[ricardolupo]

Should I also care about my ~/.gem directory when uninstalling chef-dk?

[jtimberman]

@ricardolupo If you're using ChefDK's ruby as your local system ruby environment, it shouldn't touch ~/.gem.

However I'd be wary about removing /.chefdk entirely on upgrades. That directory is also where the policyfile-downloaded cookbooks are cached (/.chefdk/cache).

[justinredd]

I remove the ~/.chefdk for those times I've managed to, yet again, totally hose my gems.

[jaseeey]

Thanks @otukutun, your script uninstalled fine for me when run under sudo (or root).