Hi,
I am using Chef for installing postgresql. I am using my own customized cookbook and not the one already available on the opscode community. The intention is to install postgresql by picking up the packages from a custom defined apt repository. I have created a custom sources.list and copied it to /tmp directory on the node where I am running this recipe. My sources.list looks like this
deb http://10.94.147.248:8484/linux/ubuntu_10_x64/ /
My recipe file looks like this
execute “apt-get update” do
command "apt-get update -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/tmp/sources.list"
ignore_failure false
action :run
end
package “postgresql” do
action :install
options "-o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/tmp/sources.list --no-list-cleanup"
end
This however fails with the error “package[postgresql] (postgresql::client line 29) had an error: Chef::Exceptions:
No version specified, and no candidate version available for postgresql”
However if I modify my recipe file as below, things work fine
execute “apt-get update” do
command "apt-get update -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/tmp/sources.list"
ignore_failure false
action :run
end
execute “install postgresql” do
command "apt-get install -q -y -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/tmp/sources.list --no-list-cleanup postgresql"
ignore_failure false
action :run
end
Can someone in this forum please point out why the first recipe file is failing? Any help is immensely appreciated 
Cheers,
Ayesha
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Ayesha_Iqbal@dell.com wrote:
Can someone in this forum please point out why the first recipe file is
failing? Any help is immensely appreciated J
I would start by running 'chef-client -l debug' looking at the
actually command that is being run as a result of this provider.
Bryan
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Ayesha_Iqbal@dell.com wrote:
Hi,
I am using Chef for installing postgresql. I am using my own customized
cookbook and not the one already available on the opscode community. The
intention is to install postgresql by picking up the packages from a custom
defined apt repository. I have created a custom sources.list and copied it
to /tmp directory on the node where I am running this recipe. My
sources.list looks like this
deb http://10.94.147.248:8484/linux/ubuntu_10_x64/ /
My recipe file looks like this
execute "apt-get update" do
command "apt-get update -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/tmp/sources.list"
ignore_failure false
action :run
end
package "postgresql" do
action :install
options "-o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/tmp/sources.list --no-list-cleanup"
end
This however fails with the error “package[postgresql] (postgresql::client
line 29) had an error: Chef::Exceptions:
No version specified, and
no candidate version available for postgresql”
Can someone in this forum please point out why the first recipe file is
failing? Any help is immensely appreciated J
The package resource does not pass options to apt-cache.
Why not use the apt_repository lwrp to install your custom package
source (and GPG key?) instead of all these nasty executes.
You don't use apt like that usually do you?
--AJ
On 30 March 2012 10:32, Andrea Campi andrea.campi@zephirworks.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Ayesha_Iqbal@dell.com wrote:
Hi,
I am using Chef for installing postgresql. I am using my own customized
cookbook and not the one already available on the opscode community. The
intention is to install postgresql by picking up the packages from a custom
defined apt repository. I have created a custom sources.list and copied it
to /tmp directory on the node where I am running this recipe. My
sources.list looks like this
deb http://10.94.147.248:8484/linux/ubuntu_10_x64/ /
My recipe file looks like this
execute "apt-get update" do
command "apt-get update -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/tmp/sources.list"
ignore_failure false
action :run
end
package "postgresql" do
action :install
options "-o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/tmp/sources.list --no-list-cleanup"
end
This however fails with the error “package[postgresql] (postgresql::client
line 29) had an error: Chef::Exceptions: No version specified, and
no candidate version available for postgresql”
Can someone in this forum please point out why the first recipe file is
failing? Any help is immensely appreciated J
The package resource does not pass options to apt-cache.