Hi Nicolas,

I have not tried changing apt_repo or package_version so I'm not sure if
that path works. Have you tried omitting those? I have a Vagrant machine
running that way so I know it works (or worked).

Right now I'm not with my main machine so I can't check. Will do some time
tomorrow.

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Nicolas Morel [email protected]:

Hi,

I'm trying to get a precise64 VM running with this repository set as the
cookbooks path.
I have set up my recipes like that :

chef.add_recipe "apt"
chef.add_recipe "mongodb::10gen_repo"
chef.add_recipe "mongodb"

And the settings are :

chef.json = {
  :mongodb => {
    :apt_repo => "ubuntu-upstart",
    :package_version => "2.4.6"
  }
}

It goes well until the 10gen_repo recipe, which fails with this :
The repository file to create is nil, cannot continue.

The compiled version seems fine :

Compiled Resource:

Declared in /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/mongodb/recipes/10gen_repo.rb:28:in `from_file'

apt_repository("10gen") do
uri "http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart"
retry_delay 2
keyserver "hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80"
retries 0
recipe_name "10gen_repo"
components ["10gen"]
action [:add]
cookbook_name :mongodb
key "7F0CEB10"
distribution "dist"
end

I don't know what I'm missing here.

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It does the same thing if I remove the configuration of apt_repo and package_version.
I use a vagrant 1.3.3 with their default precise64 base box which contains chef 10.14.2 on a ruby vm 1.8.

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So Chef 10.x was the problem :)
I tried with the precise64 box and got the same error. Updating Chef to latest version fixes the thing. I think you will want to update Chef in the base box.
I fixed a typo in the service name.

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For the record I ended up using schisamo/vagrant-omnibus to upgrade chef and it was a breeze :)

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I have been on the fence about omnibus, as I think the right solution to the problem is to update and distribute the updated base box. Anyway it's nice to know that solves your problem.

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