Hi Anthony,

I think you are confusing Chef with Librarian with Vagrant.

- Chef is a configuration management tool
- Librarian is a Chef cookbook dependency manager
- Vagrant merely executes the Chef recipes you specify

Best,
Seth

> On Nov 4, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Anthony Kong <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Seth, 
> 
> Thanks for your answer. I made that comment because I was expecting chef to 
> resolve all the dependencies and install them automatically for me. As you 
> can see in the Cheffile.lock file, chef seems to be capable of working out 
> the dependency tree of sensu
> 
> I will explicitly add the dependent packages for now.
> 
> Cheers, Tony
> 
> On Wednesday, 5 November 2014 07:59:33 UTC+11, Seth Vargo wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
> 
> This is not really a Vagrant issue, but I'll answer as best I can here. 
> 
> I do not see rabbitmq in your Chef configuration run_list. Vagrant has no way 
> of knowing you want to run the rabbitmq recipe if you do not specify it in 
> the run_list. Just like your other recipes (apt, vim, git), you need to tell 
> Chef to run that recipe.
> 
> > I think it will defeat the purpose of using chef if I have to explicitly 
> > add rabbitmq to the recipe list.
> 
> I am not sure I understand this comment. You must declare the recipe in your 
> run_list or Chef does not know to run the recipe.
> 
> Best,
> Seth
> 
>> On Nov 4, 2014, at 3:16 PM, Anthony Kong <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am trying to install sensu to a VM in Virtual Box.
>> 
>> It is my Cheffile:
>> 
>> # encoding: utf-8
>> 
>> site 'http://community.opscode.com/api/v1' 
>> <http://community.opscode.com/api/v1'>
>> 
>> cookbook "apt"
>> cookbook "python", {}
>> cookbook "vim", {}
>> cookbook "git", {}
>> cookbook "postfix", {}
>> cookbook 'sensu', '~> 2.2.0'
>> 
>> I can confirm that sensu's dependencies are correctly resolved in 
>> Cheffile.lock. e.g.
>> 
>> $ grep rabbit Cheffile.lock
>>     rabbitmq (3.3.0)
>>       rabbitmq (>= 2.0.0)
>> 
>> 
>> However, after vagrant up, I find that the package rabbitmq-server is not 
>> installed.
>> 
>> Here is my chef provision section of my Vagrant file
>> 
>> 
>>   config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
>>     chef.cookbooks_path = "cookbooks"
>>     # Enable this for debug info
>>     # chef.log_level = :debug
>>     chef.data_bags_path = "data_bags"
>>     chef.add_recipe 'apt'
>>     chef.add_recipe 'python'
>>     chef.add_recipe 'vim'
>>     chef.add_recipe 'git'
>>     # Must provide ssl.json in data bag for sensu
>>     chef.add_recipe 'sensu'
>>     chef.json = {
>>       :git   => {
>>         :prefix => "/usr/local"
>>       }
>>     }
>>   end
>> 
>> I think it will defeat the purpose of using chef if I have to explicitly add 
>> rabbitmq to the recipe list. How can I resolve this missing dependency 
>> problem?
>> 
>> Thanks
>>  
>> 
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