[chef] Re: Re: Clear package cache?

[Lee Huffman < >]

Thanks a lot, Seth. I was able to resolve this with your suggestion and a couple other tweaks.

Appreciate the help!

On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Seth Chisamore wrote:

Lee,

Create an execute resource and notify it from the template that creates the yum repo:

execute "yum clean all" do

  action :nothing

end

template "/etc/yum.repos.d/random_name.repo" do

  notifies :run, resources(:execute => "yum clean all"), :immediately

end

You can also take a look at the APT cookbook since it does something very similar (for "apt-get update"):

http://github.com/opscode/cookbooks/tree/master/apt/

They both create an execute resource in the compile phase that is notified and run during the execution phase

Seth

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On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Lee Huffman < "> > wrote:

Hello,

I have a recipe that installs a yum repository and then immediately attempts to install packages from that repository. Unfortunately, I'm receiving errors that the package I'm trying to install isn't available.

Chef output: https://gist.github.com/d0d1316453b3a4cc7d91

However, I have no problem installing the package manually.

System output: https://gist.github.com/2f4ef87eba8bb6d7c5de

I attempted to add the following to the recipe (in between the repository's installation and the package's installation):

execute "yum clean all" do
 action :run
end

But continued to receive the same error message. Has anyone experienced this before?