[chef] Re: Working with options on Package resource

[Andrea Campi < >]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:01 PM,  
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 wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am using Chef for installing postgresql. I am using my own customized
> cookbook and not the one already available on the opscode community. The
> intention is to install postgresql by picking up the packages from a custom
> defined apt repository. I have created a custom sources.list and copied it
> to /tmp directory on the node where I am running this recipe. My
> sources.list looks like this
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> deb http://10.94.147.248:8484/linux/ubuntu_10_x64/ /
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> My recipe file looks like this
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> execute "apt-get update" do
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>   command "apt-get update -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/tmp/sources.list"
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>   ignore_failure false
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>   action :run
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> end
>
> package "postgresql" do
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>   action :install
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>   options "-o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/tmp/sources.list --no-list-cleanup"
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> end
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>
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> This however fails with the error “package[postgresql] (postgresql::client
> line 29) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Package: No version specified, and
> no candidate version available for postgresql”
>
>
> Can someone in this forum please point out why the first recipe file is
> failing? Any help is immensely appreciated J

The package resource does not pass options to apt-cache.