[chef] Re: Re: Run list ordering

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

The "Loading cookbooks" phase is just referring to downloading the cookbooks 
from the chef server, which I guess it does in alpha order because it makes 
as much sense as anything else :-)

--Noah

On Jan 29, 2013, at 5:49 PM, Ranjib Dey wrote:

> 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, 
> <
 >
>  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 :)
>

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