[chef] yum::epel problems in wrapped cookbook

[Jeffrey Jones < >]

Hello all.

I am using Vagrant with chef and berkshelf (A killer combo!) and have 
run into some problems with the yum cookbook.

I have a "base" cookbook which installs a whole range of basic linux 
utilities and software. It depends on the latest yum cookbook and 
includes yum::yum and yum::epel. This works without trouble.

After that I have other cookbooks which depends on the "base" cookbook 
and then add more specific software depending on what the server is 
going to be doing, I believe this is commonly referred to as  a 
"wrapper" cookbook. The first line of the recipes/default.rb file in 
this wrapper cookbook is: include_recipe "base::default".

Now when I run the base cookbook on its own the provisioning works 
without trouble.

However when I run the wrapper cookbook the epel installation appears to 
fail with the following: https://gist.github.com/rurounijones/5771208

It appears that it is not finding the epel key etc etc. but I cannot 
understand why.

I don't suppose anyone could enlighten me and explain what would be the 
right way to fix this?

Cheers

Jeff