[chef] Re: Re: Changing a cookbook's folder-name - how painful?

[Hedge Hog < >]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Hedge Hog 
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>> Hi,
>> I'm in the process or revisiting my idea to use Bundler to manage
>> groups of individual cookbooks in to ./chef-repo/cookbooks.
>> I've made some progress.  Hence I have a couple of questions:
>> - If I change a cookbook's folder name (i.e. under
>> ./chef-repo/cookbooks), where am I going to have propagate that
>> change?  E.g. cookbooks/apache2 -> cookbooks/apache2-<hash>. So far I
>> can guess a couple of places, but it would be nice to have a list of
>> everywhere that change must be made.
>> - Is there a way or one place to map a cookbook's folder name to some
>> name that is referenced else where?  Some way of abusing Role's
>> override_attributes or some such thing?
>> - WRT to Chef environments, will these map to a folder structure under
>> the cookbooks folder, e.g. cookbooks/prod/apache2-<hash1>,
>> cookbooks/staging/apache2-<hash2>
>>
>> Appreciate any insights.
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> This is going to be tough. The cookbook loader uses the directory name
> as the name of the cookbook, so you'd have to change the run lists of
> all of the nodes and roles to use `recipe[apache2-123def]`. If you're
> committed to what you've got so far, you might be able to use a rake
> task or similar to create symlinks with the hash part removed.
>

I'm struggling to see if or how environments show up 'on-the-disk' in
the chef-repo.
From the feature file I see the HTTP API uses:
./environments/<env>/cookbooks

It seems this does not map to the chef-repo - or at least looking at
what is currently in the environments branch.

There are a lot of feature files and I haven't memorized Chef's
internal workflows, so I'd appreciate any hint about what feature
file(s) to dig into.

Best wishes.



> Dan DeLeo
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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