Hello, we run chef11 and an internal repo for RPM:s (satellite).
Since we do releases to stage and test every few hours every day of the
week we need the nodes to install new packages often.
When we found out the RPMS didnt get installed we did some digging.
Got this out of shef:
chef > recipe_mode
chef:recipe > package “xmltolk”
=> <package[xmltolk] @name: “xmltolk” @noop: nil @before: nil @params: {}
@provider: nil @allowed_actions: [:nothing, :install, :upgrade, :remove,
:purge, :reconfig] @action: :install @updated: false
@updated_by_last_action: false @supports: {} @ignore_failure: false
@retries: 0 @retry_delay: 2 @source_line: “(irb#1):1:in `irb_binding’”
@elapsed_time: 0 @candidate_version: nil @options: nil @package_name:
“xmltolk” @resource_name: :package @response_file: nil @source: nil
@version: nil @cookbook_name: nil @recipe_name: nil>
chef:recipe > chef_run
=> nil
chef:recipe > run_chef
[2013-05-17T14:17:01+02:00] INFO: Processing package[xmltolk] action
install ((irb#1) line 1)
[2013-05-17T14:17:06+02:00] DEBUG: package[xmltolk] checking yum info for
xmltolk
[2013-05-17T14:17:06+02:00] DEBUG: package[xmltolk] installed version:
STAGE-3 candidate version: STAGE-4
[2013-05-17T14:17:06+02:00] DEBUG: package[xmltolk] is already installed -
nothing to do
the recipe itself has:
package “xmltolk” do
action [:install]
end
If we do an upgrade it works fine, but we want to recipe just to contain
package “xmltolk”
Any suggestions
Jens Skott
Tel: +46-8-5142 4396
Schibsted Centralen IT
One of the core 'ideas' of chef is idempotence, and although sometimes it
can take some work on your part to get there, it generally achieves this
goal.
Which means if you tell chef "package 'xmltolk'", which has a default
action of install, and that package (any version) is installed, then Chef
will rightly say "package is installed - system is in described state!".
:upgrade is not the default action for the package resource because it's
not really idempotent (running it twice may not lead to the same results).
So long story short, use 'action :upgrade'. There's other ways to achieve
your goal, such as specifying a version string, which can be found
documented here: package Resource
Brian
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Jens Skott jens.skott@schibsted.se wrote:
Hello, we run chef11 and an internal repo for RPM:s (satellite).
Since we do releases to stage and test every few hours every day of the
week we need the nodes to install new packages often.
When we found out the RPMS didnt get installed we did some digging.
Got this out of shef:
chef > recipe_mode
chef:recipe > package "xmltolk"
=> <package[xmltolk] @name: "xmltolk" @noop: nil @before: nil @params: {}
@provider: nil @allowed_actions: [:nothing, :install, :upgrade, :remove,
:purge, :reconfig] @action: :install @updated: false
@updated_by_last_action: false @supports: {} @ignore_failure: false
@retries: 0 @retry_delay: 2 @source_line: "(irb#1):1:in `irb_binding'"
@elapsed_time: 0 @candidate_version: nil @options: nil @package_name:
"xmltolk" @resource_name: :package @response_file: nil @source: nil
@version: nil @cookbook_name: nil @recipe_name: nil>
chef:recipe > chef_run
=> nil
chef:recipe > run_chef
[2013-05-17T14:17:01+02:00] INFO: Processing package[xmltolk] action
install ((irb#1) line 1)
[2013-05-17T14:17:06+02:00] DEBUG: package[xmltolk] checking yum info for
xmltolk
[2013-05-17T14:17:06+02:00] DEBUG: package[xmltolk] installed version:
STAGE-3 candidate version: STAGE-4
[2013-05-17T14:17:06+02:00] DEBUG: package[xmltolk] is already installed -
nothing to do
the recipe itself has:
package "xmltolk" do
action [:install]
end
If we do an upgrade it works fine, but we want to recipe just to contain
package "xmltolk"
Any suggestions
Jens Skott
Tel: +46-8-5142 4396
Schibsted Centralen IT