[chef] Re: dependency issue with cookbook that uses gem with native code

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Eric Swenson 
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> I'm trying to provision a server with a cookbook that uses the 
> mysql_database resource from the database cookbook.  This cookbook depends 
> on the mysql cookbook, which requires building due to references to native 
> code (e.g. libmysqlclient).
> In trying to bootstrap a brand new node, which doesn't have gcc (and other 
> build-essential components), I cannot get past the error:
>
> Error executing action `install` on resource 'chef_gem[mysql]'
>
> My cookbook has a "depends" statement for the "database" cookbook.  And 
> that cookbook has a dependency on "mysql". Prior to executing any of the 
> recipes in any of the defined cookbook, chef-client tries to compile the 
> cookbooks it knows it needs.
> It can't build the "mysql" cookbook because gcc is not yet installed. While 
> I've added "recipe[build-essential]" to the head of my run_list for the 
> role, chef-client never gets this far, as it wants to compile all cookbooks 
> in the dependency list prior to executing
> any of the recipes in the run list.
>
> How do I get around this?   I want to bootstrap a node that doesn't have 
> gcc installed (yet).  How do I get chef-client to install the 
> build-essential package BEFORE compiling cookbooks?

All that compile-time hackery code is an abomination. That aside, if
you include database::mysql in your run_list prior it will deal with
the setup of build-essential as a compile-time dependency.

- Julian

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