[chef] Re: About Opscode's cookbook repo changes

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, June 17, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Miquel Torres wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> last month there was a post regarding changes in the opscode cookbooks repo:
> http://www.opscode.com/blog/2011/05/24/update-on-the-future-of-opscodes-cookbooks/
> 
> While I can understand the reasons that made Opscode remove the
> metadata.json from all cookbooks, it does pose a big problem for
> non-ruby tools like LittleChef, which depended on JSON to
> inter-operate.
> 
> Is there a way to generate metadata.json for all cookbooks that
> doesn't need a Chef Server?
> "knife cookbook metadata" doesn't classify there, unfortunately.
> 
> Cheers,
> Miquel
knife cookbook metadata doesn't need to talk to the server to work, but the 
config checker will error out if you don't have a key. So the best solution 
is to patch knife so that the config checker only cares about your private 
key when running a command that requires it.

-- 
Dan DeLeo