[chef] Package provider

[Jens Skott < >]

Hello, we run chef11 and an internal repo for RPM:s (satellite).

Since we do releases to stage and test every few hours every day of the week we need the nodes to install new packages often. 

When we found out the RPMS didnt get installed we did some digging.

Got this out of shef:

chef > recipe_mode

chef:recipe > package "xmltolk"

 => <package[xmltolk] @name: "xmltolk" @noop: nil @before: nil @params: {} @provider: nil @allowed_actions: [:nothing, :install, :upgrade, :remove, :purge, :reconfig] @action: :install @updated: false @updated_by_last_action: false @supports: {} @ignore_failure: false @retries: 0 @retry_delay: 2 @source_line: "(irb#1):1:in `irb_binding'" @elapsed_time: 0 @candidate_version: nil @options: nil @package_name: "xmltolk" @resource_name: :package @response_file: nil @source: nil @version: nil @cookbook_name: nil @recipe_name: nil> 

chef:recipe > chef_run

 => nil 

chef:recipe > run_chef

[2013-05-17T14:17:01+02:00] INFO: Processing package[xmltolk] action install ((irb#1) line 1)

[2013-05-17T14:17:06+02:00] DEBUG: package[xmltolk] checking yum info for xmltolk

[2013-05-17T14:17:06+02:00] DEBUG: package[xmltolk] installed version: STAGE-3 candidate version: STAGE-4

[2013-05-17T14:17:06+02:00] DEBUG: package[xmltolk] is already installed - nothing to do

the recipe itself has:

package "xmltolk" do

action [:install]

end

If we do an upgrade it works fine, but we want to recipe just to contain 

package "xmltolk" 

Any suggestions

Jens Skott 

Tel: +46-8-5142 4396

Schibsted Centralen IT