[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Nodejs community CK mess

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, July 18, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I think it would be really nice to introduce vendor namespace/prefix so 
> there would be possible to for multiple apach2 cookbooks to co-exists, and 
> I think that this should be supported not only in the supermarket/berkshelf 
> but on the chef-client/server level also, so multiple cookbooks for the 
> same software can co-exists on the same chef server. 
> there is a nice blogpost explaining why is this a PITA atm: 
> http://www.rallydev.com/community/engineering/chef-dependency-solving ;
> (probably most of you already read it, but maybe not everybody), and ofc. 
> anybody can start using prefixes in the cookbook names right now, but 
> having it officially supported would be better as it would make the format 
> standardized plus it would make it possible to register your own vendor 
> name in a central place so it would be less likely/impossible that two 
> vendor picked the same prefix.

Have a look at this RFC, it would solve this problem (and generally make all 
the things in the blog post you linked a lot better) 
https://github.com/opscode/chef-rfc/pull/20

-- 
Daniel DeLeo