Question

I made a recipe for vagrant that installs phpunit, however it keeps failing when I use vagrant halt then vagrant up.

execute "discover phpunit" do
  command "pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de"
  action :run
end

execute "config phpunit" do
  command "pear config-set auto_discover 1"
  action :run
end

execute "install phpunit" do
  command "pear install pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit"
  action :run
end

I get:

[default] [Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:39:57 -0700] ERROR: execute[discover phpunit] (phpunit::default line 39) has had an error
[Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:39:57 -0700] ERROR: execute[discover phpunit] (/tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/phpunit/recipes/default.rb:39:in `from_file') had an error:
execute[discover phpunit] (phpunit::default line 39) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
---- Begin output of pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de ----
STDOUT: Channel "pear.phpunit.de" is already initialized

Answer 1

It looks like what is happening is this script is being run every time vagrant up is executed.

You probably want something like this:

execute "discover phpunit" do
  command "pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de"
  action :run
  not_if "which phpunit"
end

Just make sure phpunit is in you $PATH