[chef] Re: Re: Ideas on kickstarting a node and auto-applying a role

[Joshua Timberman < >]

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Hello!

On May 14, 2010, at 12:37 PM, John Merrells wrote:

> You might be able to do this by writing some ruby code in a role  
> file..... I'm not sure how the chef client determines which  
> cookbooks to download from the server... it might be static....  
> others on the list can probably answer this.


The server sends the client the cookbooks mentioned in the run_list,  
and the dependencies those cookbooks have based on their Metadata. If  
you want to use the libraries, resources, providers or definitions  
between cookbooks, you need to specify dependencies in the metadata.  
Likewise if you `include_recipe`, you have to make sure the included  
cookbook is in the metadata.

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Metadata

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