[chef] Re: Run list ordering

[Ranjib Dey < >]

run list item are not executed alphabetically, they are executed as per the order of assignment in the run list. But this order can be changed, as recipes can internally invoke "include_recipe ".

Check the recipes, see if you have any include_recipe

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:33 PM, < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi, I'm a bit confused about the ordering in the runlist.

I'm trying to set up elasticsearch using the elastic search cookbook from
https://github.com/elasticsearch/cookbook-elasticsearch

I have a search role looking like this:

name "search"
description "search"
run_list(
  "recipe[xml]",
  "recipe[java]",
  "recipe[monit]",
  "recipe[elasticsearch]",
  "recipe[elasticsearch::aws]",
  "recipe[elasticsearch::ebs]",
  "recipe[elasticsearch::data]",
)
default_attributes(
)
override_attributes(
  "xml" => {"packages" => ["libxml2", "libxml2-dev", "libxslt-dev"]}
)

From the logs when running the chef-client, I can see:

Run List expands to [xml, java, monit, elasticsearch, elasticsearch::aws,
elasticsearch::ebs, elasticsearch::data]

But then:

Loading cookbooks [ark, build-essential, chef_handler, elasticsearch, java,
monit,
windows, xml]

So for some reason, xml is run after elasticsearch, which obviously blows up,
because it is trying to install nokogiri, which requires libxml2 etc.

Is there a way to override the order? Is it just being run alphabetically? I'm
confused :)