[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: New Community Cookbook: MongoDB

[markus korn < >]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Brad Knowles 
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 wrote:
> On Sep 16, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:
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> In de-composing the various AND conditions, we ran across an issue with the 
> line that reads:
>
>             recipes:mongodb\\:\\:replicaset AND \
>
> I was wondering why this particular syntax was used (with the 
> double-backslashes), instead of a syntax more like this:
>
>             recipes[mongodb::replicaset] AND \
>

The query syntax for searches in the expanded run_list is documented
in the chef wiki at [0].
It should be
   search(:node, 'recipes:apache2\:\:mod_proxy_ajp')
And this translates to
  irb(main):006:0* 'recipes:apache2\:\:mod_proxy_ajp'
  => "recipes:apache2\\:\\:mod_proxy_ajp"
So the query itself should be alright. But, as mentioned in the wiki,
you need at least chef 0.9.8 for this feature.
It is possible you are using an older version of chef?

Greetings,
have a nice weekend,
Markus



[0] 
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Search#Search-FindNodeswithaRecipeintheExpandedRunList