[chef] Re: Automatic Run of a Dependency Cookbook's Default Recipe

[Ash Berlin < >]

On 27 Jan 2012, at 11:42, Dominique Poulain wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The Chef Wiki states that:
> 
> "listing a cookbook as a dependency in metadata.rb will automatically run 
> that
> cookbook's default recipe (if it exists), even if this is the only place the
> cookbook is referenced."
> 
> (<http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Metadata#Metadata-depends>)
> 
> Yet, this wasn't the behaviour I observed in tests I ran: if I only 
> referenced
> a cookbook as a dependency in metadata.rb, no recipe from it would ever run.
> 
> Does that mean the Chef wiki description is obsolete? IMHO, things are saner
> that way (with no default recipe being run), but I'd like to make sure 
> they're
> going to stay that way :-)
> 
> Would someone please be able to confirm this?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> d.

Yes, this is incorrect. Putting the cookbook in the metadata as a dep just 
means that the cookbook is available on the node for use with cookbook_file, 
include_recipe, et al.

-ash