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\"
           


        

Answer 1

Without patching, this is a generic approach to the problem that will update on every run:

bash "update-apt-repository" do
  user "root"
  code <<-EOH
  apt-get update
  EOH
end

It may be worth considering that such a run, on every run, ties up a fair bit of system resources for about 30 seconds; you may want to have a special recipe named recipe::update_apt that you have run via cron or via some other event i.e.

chef-client -o "recipe[yourrecipe::update_apt]"