[chef] Re: Re: cookbook files/ directory not syncd, chef-client a noop but shef -z "run_chef" works

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

Ohai!

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Charles Duffy 
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 wrote:
> Doing a bit more research --
> At least one item was simply a matter of me confusing myself -- my
> expectation that cookbook files would be stored in the cache on the client
> node appears to have been simply inaccurate. Watching the HTTP PUT by knife
> cookbook upload clearly shows the files in question being put, and their
> names and signatures are included when the node retrieves its list of
> cookbooks. I simply wasn't seeing anything being done with run_client on
> account of it being less verbose than shef's default logging level (and
> because my run_list was inappropriately constructed, not including the
> recipe in which I was inserting extra logging).
> It looks like there's only one real issue here, and I'm wondering if it's
> simply a limitation of the "solo" mode shef -z runs in:

I think there's possibly two bugs here. One is that even though you
ran shef in "chef-client" mode, it says it's in solo mode. The
offending code is here:

https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/chef/lib/chef/shef/shef_session.rb#L177

This is annoying, but probably unrelated to being unable to use
cookbook files. The root cause of the cookbook file bug is that shef
is not configuring the cookbook fetching system to work as a
chef-client so it doesn't know if it should be getting cookbook files
and templates from disk (like chef-solo) or from the remote server
(like chef-client).

I'll create tickets for these.

Dan