[chef] Overriding node attributes with a wrapper cookbook

[Jay Reslock < >]

I'm hoping someone can help me figure this one out.

my_wrapper_cookbook depends on the community hadoop cookbook.  Each recipe in the hadoop cookbook has an 'include_recipe hadoop::repo' in order to set up the appropriate yum/apt repos for installation.

I want to use local repo mirrors to speed up the installation process because I'm installing hadoop clusters via automation to run testing every night.  The installation process takes a long time.  

I'm trying my_cookbook -> attributes -> repos.rb and setting node.override there.  These do not seem to be picked up when I converge the node.  Instead, the attributes are being set via hadoop::repo for every recipe that is run since each recipe in the hadoop cookbook includes the repo recipe.