[chef] Re: RE: Re: Chef-Cookbook creation

[AJ Christensen < >]

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html#M000022

On 14 March 2011 10:24, WEINHAPL Andreas
<
 >
 wrote:
> I think there is an easier way to solve this issue:
> Knife.rb (won't work)
> cookbook_path [ '~/chef-repo/cookbooks', '~/chef-repo/site-cookbooks' ]
>
> Knife.rb (works really good)
> cookbook_path [ '/home/xxx/chef-repo/cookbooks',
> '/home/chef-repo/site-cookbooks' ]
>
> I just use the absolute path for the cookbook..
>
> Many thanks for your help :) But please explain your method.
>
> Regards
> Andreas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AJ Christensen 
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> Sent: Montag, 14. März 2011 14:56
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> Subject: [chef] Re: Chef-Cookbook creation
>
> On 14 March 2011 09:44, WEINHAPL Andreas
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have just a little question about knife?! At the installation of the
>> server you have to configure knife with “knife configure –I” You will
>> locate
>> the different *.pem files aso.  After that you are able to create a new
>> cookbook with:
>>
>> “ knife cookbook create test04”
>>
>>                 ** Creating cookbook test04
>>
>> ** Creating README for cookbook: test04
>>
>> ** Creating metadata for cookbook: test04
>>
>>
>>
>> After playing with GIT and the root user I will get this if I try to
>> create
>> a new cookbook:
>>
>> ** Creating cookbook vendor
>>
>> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/knife/cookbook_create.rb:90:in `initialize': No
>> such
>> file or directory - ~/chef-repo/cookbooks/vendor/recipes/default.rb
>> (Errno::ENOENT)
>
> Use File.expand_path("~/some/shit") to expand the tilde to your home
> directory.
>
> Regards,
>
> AJ
>
>>
>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/knife/cookbook_create.rb:90:in `open'
>>
>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/knife/cookbook_create.rb:90:in
>> `create_cookbook'
>>
>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/knife/cookbook_create.rb:74:in `run'
>>
>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/knife.rb:127:in `run'
>>
>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application/knife.rb:121:in `run'
>>
>>         from /usr/bin/knife:25
>>
>>
>>
>> Can anybody help me with this problem?! I did a reconfigure of the knife
>> but
>> without success!!
>>
>>
>>
>> Knife.rb is thath:
>>
>> “
>>
>> log_level                :info
>>
>> log_location             STDOUT
>>
>> node_name                'xxx'
>>
>> client_key               '/home/xxx/chef-repo/.chef/thales.pem'
>>
>> validation_client_name   'chef-validator'
>>
>> validation_key           '/etc/chef/validation.pem'
>>
>> chef_server_url          'http://serverxx.domain:4000'
>>
>> cache_type               'BasicFile'
>>
>> cache_options( :path => '/home/xxx/chef-repo/.chef/checksums' )
>>
>> cookbook_path [ '~/chef-repo/cookbooks', '~/chef-repo/site-cookbooks' ]
>>
>> “
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Andreas
>