FATAL: NameError: uninitialized constant Chef::Recipe::Opscode

[ramontayag]

I'm running into an error FATAL: NameError: uninitialized constant Chef::Recipe::Opscode when I attempt to run the server recipe.

I'm on Ubuntu 10.04.

It seems that others have run into it too.

Perhaps there's something wrong with the way we configured stuff?

You can see the full error here.

[ramontayag]

Adding recipe[openssl] in the run_list before this postgresql recipe fixed it. What do you think a good fix for this is? I add one of the following to my fork and submit a pull request:

• If Chef::Recipe::Opscode is not defined, then fail and let the user that they need the openssl recipe.
• Include the openssl recipe from the beginning to avoid this error.

[jdugan]

Honestly, I'm not sure what the Chef-y way to do this is. Since the cookbook declares OpenSSL as a dependency, I'm inclined to have our cookbook simply do what's required without human intervention.

I wonder if it would be enough to add include_recipe "openssl" before the statement that tries to use the password library?

[ramontayag]

I can try that! Let you know if it works.

[ichilton]

Any update on the best fix to this? - adding openssl to the runlist seems a bit nasty.

Adding include_recipe "openssl" doesn't seem to work - presumably because the default recipe is empty and the needed code is in a library.

[ramontayag]

Sorry this got buried. I believe adding openssl worked.

[ichilton]

Is there a way to include openssl from the postgresql cookbook/recipe? - adding: include_recipe "openssl" doesn't work.

Adding it to the runlist works, but I don't really want that cluttered.

Thanks,

Ian

[ramontayag]

Hmm yeah I don't know how else. Yes, you're right it'll get cluttered though.

[SkyWriter]

Using both:

include_recipe "openssl"
include_recipe "postgresql::server"

And adding dependency to my site-cookbook like this:

depends          'openssl'
depends          'postgresql'

... solved my problem without cluttering the runlist.

[jmara]

Usually you don't need to include_recipe a library cookbook. To access the methods it should work to depend it in the metadata.rb:

depends 'openssl'