How can I get Chef to run apt-get update before running other recipes

Question

Right now I have the following in my Vagrantfile:

config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|     chef.cookbooks_path = "cookbooks"     chef.add_recipe "apt"     chef.add_recipe "build-essential"     chef.add_recipe "chef-redis::source"     chef.add_recipe "openssl"     chef.add_recipe "git"     chef.add_recipe "postgresql::server"     chef.add_recipe "postgresql::client" end 

In order to install the software added to my recipe_list, I need to get the VM to issue an apt-get update before installing the other software.

I was under the impression that this was one of the features of the 'apt' recipe - that it would run the update first thing.

The output when I do a vagrant provision is:

[Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:20:03 -0800] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.2 *** [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:20:03 -0800] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["recipe[apt]", "recipe[build-essential]", "recipe[chef-redis::source]", "recipe[openssl]", "recipe[git]", "recipe[postgresql::server]", "recipe[postgresql::client]", "recipe[vagrant-main]"] from JSON [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:20:03 -0800] INFO: Run List is [recipe[apt], recipe[build-essential], recipe[chef-redis::source], recipe[openssl], recipe[git], recipe[postgresql::server], recipe[postgresql::client], recipe[vagrant-main]] [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:20:03 -0800] INFO: Run List expands to [apt, build-essential, chef-redis::source, openssl, git, postgresql::server, postgresql::client, vagrant-main] [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:20:03 -0800] INFO: Starting Chef Run for lucid32 [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:20:03 -0800] INFO: Processing package[postgresql-client] action install (postgresql::client line 37) [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:20:04 -0800] ERROR: package[postgresql-client] (postgresql::client line 37) has had an error [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:20:04 -0800] ERROR: Running exception handlers [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:20:04 -0800] ERROR: Exception handlers complete [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:20:04 -0800] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-stacktrace.out [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:20:04 -0800] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::Exec: package[postgresql-client] (postgresql::client line 37) had an error: apt-get -q -y install postgresql-client=8.4.8-0ubuntu0.10.04 returned 100, expected 0 

Answer 1

You can include the apt recipe in the very beginning:

include_recipe 'apt' 

this will run the update command.

Answer 2

apt-get update should be running first the way you have it. However, the recipe will only update once every 24 hours:

execute "apt-get-update-periodic" do   command "apt-get update"   ignore_failure true   only_if do     File.exists?('/var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp') &&     File.mtime('/var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp') < Time.now - 86400   end end