[chef] could not find recipe epel for cookbook yum

[Phil Cryer < >]

I'm having a new chef-client issue, it was working fine yesterday, but
now, any chef run gives this error:



# chef-client
Starting Chef Client, version 11.6.0
resolving cookbooks for run list: ["base", "web", "logging", "app-ctscom"]
Synchronizing Cookbooks:
  - sudo
  - users
  - line
  - nfs
  - yum
  - windows
  - openssl
  - apt
  - couchbase
  - iis
  - build-essential
  - xml
  - yum-epel
  - mysql
  - php
  - drush
  - chef-varnish
  - apache2
  - zabbix
  - app-ctscom
  - firewall
  - ufw
  - xfs
  - aws
  - postgresql
  - database
  - logging
  - web
  - centrifydc
  - runit
  - chef_handler
  - dmg
  - git
  - logrotate
  - cron
  - chef-client
  - ntp
  - base
Compiling Cookbooks...

================================================================================
Recipe Compile Error
================================================================================


Chef::Exceptions::RecipeNotFound
--------------------------------
could not find recipe epel for cookbook yum


[2014-01-18T22:40:55-06:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
[2014-01-18T22:40:55-06:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
[2014-01-18T22:40:55-06:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to
/var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
Chef Client failed. 0 resources updated
[2014-01-18T22:40:55-06:00] FATAL:
Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited
unsuccessfully (exit code 1)



I'm getting this on *all* my QA nodes, so I took yum and yum::epel out
of the cookbooks too, restarted chef-server, same issue.

On irc #chef, atompngn told me "you pulled in yum 3.0 in some
cookbook, possibly have a cookbook that depends on ~> 2.0 and ~> 3.0
of yum, 'git grep yum::epel', and change to 'yum-epel'

So in my Berksfile I did

cookbook 'yum', '~>2.0'

and commented out the yum::epel from the cookbook - then ran berks in;
berks up, but chef-client still gives the same error.

how can I find out if yum is a dependency on another cookbook that
might need epel? Wouldn't the Berksfile declaration take care of this?
-- 
http://philcryer.com/