diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 323ee24..c4cefc7 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 # Smeagol defaults to latest homebrew by default
 ENV['CINDERELLA_RELEASE'] ||= 'origin/master'
 
+desc "Package up a set of chef recipes for the cinderella client"
 task :package do
   system("tar czf ../ciderapp.org/cider.tgz --exclude certificates --exclude config --exclude .git --exclude roles --exclude site-cookbooks .")
 end
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ begin
   end
 
   namespace :smeagol do
+    desc "Run the smeagol chef recipes with the run_list.json in config/"
     task :install do |t, args|
       system("chef-solo -j config/run_list.json -c config/solo.rb")
     end
diff --git a/config/run_list.json b/config/run_list.json
index b8419a2..531ec38 100644
--- a/config/run_list.json
+++ b/config/run_list.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "recipes": [
-     "homebrew", "homebrew::dbs", "homebrew::misc", "git",
+     "homebrew", "homebrew::misc", "git",
+     "mvim", "mvim::cli", "homebrew::dbs",
      "ruby", "ruby::rbenv", "python", "erlang", "node",
-     "mvim", "mvim::cli"
   ]
 }
diff --git a/cookbooks/homebrew/providers/homebrew.rb b/cookbooks/homebrew/providers/homebrew.rb
index 146edb7..ed2e6f7 100644
--- a/cookbooks/homebrew/providers/homebrew.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/homebrew/providers/homebrew.rb
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ def load_current_resource
         end
 
         def install_package(name, version)
-          run_brew_command("/usr/bin/env HOMEBREW_TEMP=#{PREFIX}/tmp #{HOMEBREW} install #{name}")
+          run_brew_command("if [ brew info #{name} | grep -q \"Not installed\" -eq 0 ]; then /usr/bin/env HOMEBREW_TEMP=#{PREFIX}/tmp #{HOMEBREW} install #{name}; fi")
         end
 
         def remove_package(name, version)
diff --git a/cookbooks/homebrew/recipes/default.rb b/cookbooks/homebrew/recipes/default.rb
index a18ea97..b69c04c 100644
--- a/cookbooks/homebrew/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/homebrew/recipes/default.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Recipe:: homebrew
 #
 
-HOMEBREW_DEFAULT_SHA1 = '97b62b8b3f1c8973cf8a2575bfc98706ccbbde39'
+HOMEBREW_DEFAULT_SHA1 = '05209f7c75f693edf23d992b5a00409520d36de2'
 
 root = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), ".."))
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
     if [ ! -d ./.git ]; then
       git init
       git remote add origin git://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git
-      git fetch origin
+      git fetch -q origin
       git reset --hard origin/master
     fi
   EOS
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
   code <<-EOS
     source ~/.cinderella.profile
     PATH=#{ENV['HOME']}/Developer/bin:$PATH; export PATH
-    (cd ~/Developer && git fetch origin && git reset --hard #{ENV['CINDERELLA_RELEASE'] || HOMEBREW_DEFAULT_SHA1}) >> ~/.cinderella/brew.log 2>&1
+    (cd ~/Developer && git fetch -q origin && git reset --hard #{ENV['CINDERELLA_RELEASE'] || HOMEBREW_DEFAULT_SHA1}) >> ~/.cinderella/brew.log 2>&1
   EOS
 end