Re: Problem running site-cookbooks with chef-solo

[Michael Hale <mikehale@gmail.com>]

Chef-solo doesn't support an array of cookbook_paths. I've created a
ticket chef-277 and provided a fix:
http://github.com/mikehale/chef/commits/chef-277

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Paul Battley <pbattley@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've put together a little package to let me bootstrap an EC2 machine
> and install software using Chef; the repository is at
>
>  http://github.com/threedaymonk/chef-ec2
>
> My solo.rb contains the line
>
>  cookbook_path ["/etc/chef/recipes/cookbooks",
> "/etc/chef/recipes/site-cookbooks"]
>
> but I can't get Chef to find any recipes I put in site-cookbooks. If I
> create them in cookbooks, they work fine. Otherwise, it just says:
>
>  Cannot find a cookbook named blah
>
> I must be missing something straightforward, but I can't work out what
> it is. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul.
>