From the docs it seems like using Serverspec to verify that packages are installed should be pretty straight-forward, but I'm having some interesting problems with vim and ag (the_silver_searcher).
I am using Test Kitchen with the kitchen-vagrant plugin and have two platforms: ubuntu-1404 and centos-72. All of my specs pass for Ubuntu, and two of them fail for Centos: vim and ag.
vim
The Chef code that handles this installation is super simple:
package "vim"
And here is the spec:
describe "Vim" do
describe package("vim") do
it { should be_installed }
end
end
Again, very straight-forward. However, it fails on my Centos build with this error:
2) Vim Package "vim" should be installed
Failure/Error: it { should be_installed }
expected Package "vim" to be installed
/bin/sh -c rpm\ -q\ vim
package vim is not installed
Yet if I login to the server, it most definitely is installed:
▶ kitchen login all-centos-72
Last login: Sat Jul 2 17:53:30 2016 from 10.0.2.2
[vagrant@all-centos-72 ~]$ vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jun 10 2014 06:55:55)
[vagrant@all-centos-72 ~]$ which vim
/usr/bin/vim
[vagrant@all-centos-72 ~]$ sudo yum install -y vim
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: distro.ibiblio.org
* extras: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
* updates: mirror.eboundhost.com
Package 2:vim-enhanced-7.4.160-1.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
ag
ag is more complicated in that the installation requires building from source on Centos whereas on Ubuntu it's available with apt-get. Here is the relevant part of the recipe:
bash "install Development Tools" do
code "yum -y groupinstall \"Development Tools\""
end
package %w(pcre-devel xz-devel)
target_dir = File.join("/", "usr", "local", "the_silver_searcher")
git "clone the ag repo" do
repo "https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/"
revision "master"
destination target_dir
end
bash "install ag" do
not_if system("hash ag")
cwd target_dir
code <<-EOF
./build.sh
make install
EOF
end
And here is the spec:
describe "The Silver Searcher" do
if host_inventory["platform"] == "ubuntu"
describe package("silversearcher-ag") do
it { should be_installed }
end
else
describe package("the_silver_searcher") do
it { should be_installed }
end
end
end
The Centos failure:
1) The Silver Searcher Package "the_silver_searcher" should be installed
Failure/Error: it { should be_installed }
expected Package "the_silver_searcher" to be installed
/bin/sh -c rpm\ -q\ the_silver_searcher
package the_silver_searcher is not installed
Likewise, if I log into the Centos VM I can use ag:
[vagrant@all-centos-72 ~]$ ag --version
ag version 0.32.0
[vagrant@all-centos-72 ~]$ which ag
/usr/local/bin/ag
These commands also work if I switch to root user.
I've tried to cheat the system by writing my specs in different ways for the Centos platform:
describe command("ag") do
its(:stderr) { should match /Usage: ag/ }
end
The above also doesn't work, even though typing ag when logged in (exit status 1) does produce that usage content. My last attempt was:
describe file("/usr/local/bin/ag") do
it { should exist }
end
This works but feels super hacky and like it shouldn't be necessary.
Anyone have recommendations here? Is there something I'm missing/doing wrong with these packages? I initially thought that the ag problem was only because it was installed from source rather than a package manager, but vim was installed with a package manager and still has the same problem as ag.
