[chef] Re: Re: Re: sun java install apt-get update

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Haselwanter Edmund
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 wrote:
>
> On Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Haselwanter Edmund wrote:
> >
> > [Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:50:17 +0000] INFO: Setting mode to 644 for
> > file[/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-partner-source.list]
> > [Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:50:38 +0000] ERROR: apt_repository[ubuntu-partner]
> > (/var/chef-solo/cookbooks/java/recipes/sun.rb:32:in `from_file') had an
> > error:
> > apt-get update returned 100, expected 0
>
> it seems they did a update on the ubuntu partner apt_repo. running it
> manually on the commandline worked without a problem.

If there is an issue with a repository, such as a timeout or a key
problem, "apt-get update" will exit with 100.

When running a periodic apt-get update, I tend to ignore failure:

execute "apt-get-update" do
  ignore_failure true
  command "apt-get update"
end

Note that ignore_failure supersedes the old attribute epic_fail.

It might look a little more correct to specify that you expect specific 
failure:

execute "apt-get-update" do
  returns [0, 100]
  command "apt-get update"
end

When you do add keys or a new repository, you can't do this because
you need to be sure the changes occurred. In the past, I've used
Ubuntu's update-notifier framework to handle updating the apt cache.

# Run apt-get update to create the stamp file
execute "apt-get-update" do
  ignore_failure true
  command "apt-get update"
  not_if do File.exists?('/var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp') end
end

# provides /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp on apt-get update
package "update-notifier-common" do
  ignore_failure true
  notifies :run, resources(:execute => "apt-get-update"), :immediately
end

execute "apt-get-update-periodic" do
  epic_fail true
  command "apt-get update"
  only_if do
    File.exists?('/var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp') &&
    File.mtime('/var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp') < Time.now - 
86400
  end
end

Bryan