[chef] Re: Re: Working with options on Package resource

[AJ Christensen < >]

Why not use the apt_repository lwrp to install your custom package
source (and GPG key?) instead of all these nasty executes.

You don't use apt like that usually do you?

--AJ

On 30 March 2012 10:32, Andrea Campi 
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> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:01 PM,  
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>> 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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>>
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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
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>> package "postgresql" do
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>>   action :install
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>>   options "-o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/tmp/sources.list --no-list-cleanup"
>>
>> end
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
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> The package resource does not pass options to apt-cache.