[chef] Re: Cookbook versions on node

[AJ Christensen < >]

Why don't you use environments built in cookbook version locking for
this, instead of trying to do it from a recipe?

You can make 'freeze' the default by chucking it in your knife.rb

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Environments#Environments-cookbookversions

Cheers,

--AJ

On 8 February 2012 15:36, Peter Donald 
<
 >
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to enforce certain cookbook version requirements on
> cookbooks in different environments from within a recipe.
>
> i.e. All cookbooks on "production" environment must have an even minor
> version. (i.e. 10.0.2 is valid but 10.0.3 is not). I also want to
> require that cookbooks be locked or not. (i.e. cookbook referenced in
> production environments must be frozen).
>
> Doing something like
>
> node.run_list.expand(node.chef_environment).recipes.with_versions.each
> do |recipe|
>  p recipe
> end
>
> will only include the versions if they have been explicitly set and
> will not allow me to check to see if the version is locked.
>
> Anyone have a good idea how to do this?
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Peter Donald