Vagrant with Chef Solo on CentOS 6.5: chef could not find recipe repoforge for cookbook yum?

Question

I'm building a Vagrant VM off CentOS 6.5 with Chef Solo and Berkshelf. For some reason, when I try to install the 'htop' cookbook, I get this error:

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Recipe Compile Error
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Chef::Exceptions::RecipeNotFound
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could not find recipe repoforge for cookbook yum

Has anyone seen this kind of error? My Vagrantfile section looks like this:

config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
  chef.add_recipe 'yum'
  chef.add_recipe 'yum-epel'
  chef.add_recipe 'git'
  chef.add_recipe 'htop'
end

If I do the same thing but without the 'htop' recipe, it works fine. I even tried adding:

chef.add_recipe 'yum-repoforge'

I still get the same error.

Thoughts?

The chef.add_recipe 'yum-repoforge can't help, as a) it would be yum::repoforge and furthermore the problem is that the repoforge recipe is not contained in the yum cookbook. — StephenKing

StephenKing StephenKing · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-13T21:54:27

It looks like you are using the htop cookbook from the community site. This has indeed a dependency on the repoforge recipe of the yum cookbook. However, the current version (3.x) doesn't have such a recipe and I can only assume that this recipe was moved to the yum-repoforge cookbook. Therefor, the solution would be that the maintainer of the htop cookbooks either declares a dependency to the old version of the cookbook or (better) changes the dependency to the yum-repoforge cookbook.

Honestly, htop should be so easy to install, so it might be better for you to just write your own tiny cookbook. But only my 2 cents :-)

Vagrant with Chef Solo on CentOS 6.5: chef could not find recipe repoforge for cookbook yum?

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