[chef] gem sources chicken & egg problem

[DV < >]

Hi guys,

Thought I'd get your advice on the following:

I have chef-client run fail on the initial (only) run due to host's default gem sources not having the version of gem chef-client is trying to install. To be more specific, it's passenger gem from passenger_apache2::source cookbook here:

gem_package "passenger" do

  version node['passenger']['version']

end

The default gem sources on the host simply don't have passenger gem and/or its dependencies so of course it fails.

My goal is to make chef-client aware of an additional gem source at first run. So far I've tried the following:

execute 'add_rubygems.org_gemrepo' do

    action :run

    command '/usr/bin/gem sources --add https://rubygems.org/'

end

I see the code being executed on chef-client run, nevertheless, first chef-client run fails to find passenger gem. So there must be some caching going on that I need to override.

All further chef-client runs succeed, though.

So my question is, how can I make chef-cilent aware of additional gem sources on its very first run?

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Best regards, Dmitriy V.