[chef] Re: How to configure apt to not hit the repo every time?

[Sam Darwin < >]

To answer a more general and generic question, which is not specific
to Vagrant or Berkshelf: "how do I prevent apt-get update from running
too often?",  use this code in the recipe, in place of the line
calling "apt-get update":

if node['platform_family'] == "debian"
if node['platform_version'].to_f >= 12
x = execute "apt-get update" do
      action :nothing
      not_if do
        ::File.exists?('/var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp') &&
        ::File.mtime('/var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp') >
Time.now - 86400*7
      end
  end
else
x =  execute "apt-get update" do
      action :nothing
      command "touch /tmp/apt-get-update ; /usr/bin/apt-get update"
      not_if do
        ::File.exists?('/tmp/apt-get-update') &&
        ::File.mtime('/tmp/apt-get-update') > Time.now - 86400*7
      end
  end
end
x.run_action(:run)
end



On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 2:27 PM, millisami r 
<
 >
 wrote:
> Hi, I'm developing a cookbook using Berkshelf and Vagrant latest.
>
> There is a place in the recipe that runs apt-get update frequently and other
> dependent cookbooks too like the following:
>
> [2013-05-18T11:21:48+00:00] INFO: Processing execute[apt-get update] action
> run (mysql::ruby line 23)
>
> Its fine on the production node, but in the vagrant provision way, every
> time I run, it will hit the apt-get update which is a bit slow coz it hits
> via the internet.
>
> How can I configure Vagrant to just hit only once in a single vagrant
> provision command?
> Or do I have to do change something else?
>
> @millisami
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