[chef] Why does chef-solo load all cookbooks?

[Allan Wind < >]

I am spinning up a virtual machine for testing recipies, and 
chef-solo failed on a couple of cookbooks that required gems not 
installed on the host yet.  debug output shows that chef-solo is 
loading all the cookbooks.  Why?  The run list is empty as 
indicated.

[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:09 -0400] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.4 ***
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Building node object for 
localhost.localdomain
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Extracting run list from JSON 
attributes provided on command line
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] INFO: Setting the run_list to 
["role[default]"] from JSON
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Applying attributes from json file
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Platform is centos version 5.6
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] INFO: Run List is [role[default]]
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] INFO: Run List expands to []
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] INFO: Starting Chef Run for 
localhost.localdomain
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: No chefignore file found at 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks/chefignore no files will be ignored
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Loading cookbook libraries's library 
file: /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/libraries/libraries/find_first.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Loading cookbook httpd's library 
file: /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/httpd/libraries/domains.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Loading cookbook cpan's providers 
from /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/cpan/providers/package.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Loaded contents of 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks/cpan/providers/package.rb into a provider named 
cpan_package defined in Chef::Provider::CpanPackage
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
cookbook sudo's attribute file 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks/sudo/attributes/default.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Loading Attribute users
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
cookbook mysql's attribute file 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks/mysql/attributes/default.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
cookbook munin's attribute file 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks/munin/attributes/default.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
cookbook nagios's attribute file 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks/nagios/attributes/client.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
cookbook hosts's attribute file 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks/hosts/attributes/default.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
cookbook timezone's attribute file 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks/timezone/attributes/default.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
cookbook yum's attribute file 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks/yum/attributes/default.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
cookbook users's attribute file 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks/users/attributes/default.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
cookbook ssh's attribute file 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks/ssh/attributes/default.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: I am not loading attribute file 
users, because I have already seen it.
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
cookbook postfix's attribute file 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks/postfix/attributes/aliases.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: I am not loading attribute file 
users, because I have already seen it.
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
cookbook postfix's attribute file 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks/postfix/attributes/default.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
cookbook httpd's attribute file 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks/httpd/attributes/default.rb
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Loading from cookbook_path: 
/opt/chef/current/cookbooks
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Converging node localhost.localdomain
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] INFO: Chef Run complete in 0.048032 seconds
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Cleaning the checksum cache
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] INFO: Running report handlers
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] INFO: Report handlers complete
[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Exiting


/Allan
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Allan Wind
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