[chef] Re: Adding a recipe to an existing role in chef-server

[Grig Gheorghiu < >]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:07 PM,  
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 wrote:
> My chef client node has an "app" role in it's run_list, that has already 
> run on
> my node. Let's say it that the app role has two recipes in it's run_list:
> "nginx" and "varnish". I update my my app role on my chef server, so that it
> now has three recipes: "nginx", "varnish", and "git". When I run `sudo
> chef-client` on my node, it doesn't pick up on the fact that the app role 
> has
> changed, and run the new "git" recipe...has anyone else has this problem? Is
> this by design or am I doing something wrong?
>

You need to also update the role via knife on the chef server:

$ knife role from file roles/myrole.rb
$ knife role show myrole

Grig