[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 0.10.RC Windows:site-cookbooks doesn't work

[Edward Sargisson < >]

Hi,
I'll happily try those debug steps tonight. However, perhaps you could explain somewhere (here or point me at an existing page) about how you envision the use case being met in the future.
i.e. I want to take an existing cookbook, customise it a bit, but still be able to pick up changes to the parent cookbook when they're made and I'm happy with them. 

Concrete example for discussion purposes: I recently took the wordpress cookbook and had to modify it and the code around it in order to attach an EBS volume for the database, include the FeedBurner plugin and my theme, work with Apache and Tomcat so I can send tomcat traffic to tomcat and blog traffic to Wordpress, etc.

Cheers,
Edward

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Daniel DeLeo < "> > wrote:

On Friday, April 22, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Tom Thomas wrote:

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Edward Sargisson < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi Tom,
Yes I was targetting a specific Availability Zone. In order to bring my production site back up I had to use Chef 0.9 and specify a region to bring it up.

I've just tried the same command with 0.10.0.RC.0 and it still fails in exactly the same way.

if the chef version change had an impact, then it wasn't due to AWS issues.  I'll leave analysis on why Chef 0.9 v. 0.10.0.RC had an impact on the issues' occurrence to someone more qualified than me.

 

For clarity, I'm running Knife on a Windows client to startup an Ubuntu instance in the cloud. The link below indicates that WinRM is required on the Windows servers - not the client.
So, would you still like me to try it?

ah, well then, probably not worth trying based in that :)  sorry I wasn't of any help.

 

Cheers,
Edward

In general, I'd recommend you migrate away from using site-cookbooks to stitch together modified cookbooks. 

That said, to debug this issue, it'd help if you can add `pp @cookbook_settings` between line 67 and 68 of chef/cookbook/cookbook_version_loader.rb and look for anything that stands out (you can find the file with `gem which chef/cookbook/cookbook_version_loader`

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Dan DeLeo