[chef] Re: Re: knife cookbook usage

[Hedge Hog < >]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Hedge Hog 
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>> So I wonder if knife supports using cookbooks that are not obtained
>> via Knife's 'cookbook create' or 'cookbook download'?
>> Specifically I'd like to have cookbooks in my chef-repo that brought
>> into the folder by something other than knife.
>> Is this a supported use case?
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> From knife's point of view, a cookbook is just a collection of files
> with the right directory structure. It doesn't matter if they were
> obtained by extracting a tarball, rsync-ing from a remote source, your
> version control system, or any other means. The knife commands that
> are there are just a convenience to make common workflows easier.
>

Fantastic. Thanks.

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>> Best wishes
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>> --
>> πόλλ' οἶδ ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ' ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα
>> [The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.]
>>   Archilochus, Greek poet (c. 680 BC – c. 645 BC)
>> http://wiki.hedgehogshiatus.com
>>
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> Dan DeLeo
>



-- 
πόλλ' οἶδ ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ' ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα
[The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.]
  Archilochus, Greek poet (c. 680 BC – c. 645 BC)
http://wiki.hedgehogshiatus.com