[chef] RE: Re: Getting local yum repositories enabled before other cookbooks demand them in bootstrap

["Kadel-Garcia, Nico" < >]

Julian, I'm afraid that the relevant yum repositories, namely for packages 
such as "socat" from EPEL and the "Percona-XtreDB-Cluster-server-55" from the 
the Percona repositories, are not detected as available until after the 
"yum::epel" or more recent "yum-epel" recipes have been successfully run, and 
after the "yumrepo::percona" recipe has been successfully run. But when 
bootstrapping a system, those have not been run successfully yet. the 
installation recipes for the "mysql" or "percona" or any other cookbook  
winds up using information from an earlier compilation stage *before* those 
yum repository recipes have actually been run and enabled the 3rd party 
repositores.

Because it uses an earlier compiled list of available packages, it reports 
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-sever-55 as unavailable and reports errors before any 
recipe even gets run, so the bootstrap recipe list cannot even run. I can 
manually pre-run 'chef-client -o 
'recipe[yum::epel],recipe[yumrepo::percona]'. But it's painful, and breaks 
push-button deployment via a pure bootstrap procedure.

It's quite frustrating. I intend to look at the "now" cookbook recommended by 
Sean O'Mara as a possible solution, and look forward to Chef 12 perhaps being 
less presumptive that the contents of  yum installations can be predicted 
before the "package" parts of recipes are compiled.

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From: Julian C. Dunn 
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Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 4:02 PM
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Subject: [chef] Re: Getting local yum repositories enabled before other 
cookbooks demand them in bootstrap


Nico,

I'm a little confused by what you're describing. If you bootstrap a
fresh system with the run_list being something like
'recipe[yum-epel],recipe[yumrepo::percona],recipe[mysql::server]' and
the attribute node['mysql']['server']['packages'] =
['Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-Server'], you're saying it doesn't work?
Isn't the yum repo file created by the yumrepo::percona recipe you're
describing, so that it's available for the mysql::server run?

- Julian

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