cookbook stop working after yum upgrade

[binlialfie]

in centos 7, the cookbook works fine initially, mesos-1.1.0-2.0.107.centos701406 installed

in the second chef-client, mesos-1.1.0-2.0.107.centos701406 upgrade to mesos-1.2.0-2.0.6 as expected after yum update happens somewhere.

however, the following error occurs for the next chef-client

Recipe: mesos::install
  * yum_package[unzip] action install (up to date)
  * yum_package[libcurl] action install (up to date)
  * yum_package[subversion] action install (up to date)
  * yum_package[mesos] action install

    ================================================================================
    Error executing action `install` on resource 'yum_package[mesos]'
    ================================================================================

    Chef::Exceptions::Package
    -------------------------
    Installed package mesos-1.2.0-2.0.6 is newer than candidate package mesos-1.1.0-2.0.107.centos701406

    Resource Declaration:
    ---------------------
    # In /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/mesos/recipes/install.rb

     54:   yum_package 'mesos' do
     55:     version lazy {
     56:       # get the version-release string directly from the Yum provider rpmdb
     57:       Chef::Provider::Package::Yum::YumCache
     58:         .instance.instance_variable_get('@rpmdb').lookup('mesos')
     59:         .find { |pkg| pkg.version.v == node['mesos']['version'] }
     60:         .version.to_s
     61:     }
     62:   end
     63: end

    Compiled Resource:
    ------------------
    # Declared in /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/mesos/recipes/install.rb:54:in `from_file'

    yum_package("mesos") do
      package_name "mesos"
      action [:install]
      default_guard_interpreter :default
      declared_type :yum_package
      cookbook_name "mesos"
      recipe_name "install"
      version "1.1.0-2.0.107.centos701406"
    end

    System Info:
    ------------
    chef_version=13.0.118
    platform=centos
    platform_version=7.3.1611
    ruby=ruby 2.4.1p111 (2017-03-22 revision 58053) [x86_64-linux]
    program_name=chef-client worker: ppid=30621;start=14:45:03;
    executable=/opt/chef/bin/chef-client


Running handlers:
[2017-05-03T14:45:24+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
Running handlers complete
[2017-05-03T14:45:24+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
Chef Client failed. 16 resources updated in 20 seconds
[2017-05-03T14:45:24+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
[2017-05-03T14:45:24+00:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace.out file if you file a bug report
[2017-05-03T14:45:24+00:00] ERROR: yum_package[mesos] (mesos::install line 54) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Package: Installed package mesos-1.2.0-2.0.6 is newer than candidate package mesos-1.1.0-2.0.107.centos701406
[2017-05-03T14:45:24+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)

[binlialfie]

remove the mesos-1.2.0-2.0.6 package manually, will then repeat the above behaviours all again.

[kamaradclimber]

@binlialfie you've probably solved your issue during the last 12 months but just in case:
this is a normal behavior. You are asking chef to install mesos package to version 1.2.0-2.0.6 whereas you have a more recent version installed.

Default chef behavior in this case is to refuse to do it. You'd need the allow_downgrade property set to allow chef to downgrade the package.