[chef] Re: could not find recipe epel for cookbook yum

["Eric G. Wolfe" < >]

If you're using Berkshelf, try grepping for 'yum::epel' and 'yum-epel' 
in the berkshelf store to track down your dependency conflict.

Eric G. Wolfe
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On 01/19/2014 01:10 AM, Phil Cryer wrote:
> 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?