[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Best practices for keeping repo and server sync'd

[Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier < >]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 6:09 AM,  
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 wrote:
> hello,
>
> guard-knife seems very interesting.
>
> As the initial sender of this post, we are using subversion, and we have a
> small bash script like this
>
> cd /root/svnChef/trunk
> svn update
> # TODO: Backup cookbooks
> knife cookbook upload -a
>
> We are never uploading a cookbook directly to the server, all the cookbook
> changes has to go through subversion commit.
>
> By the way, is there a way for exporting all cookbooks from the server, such
> knife cookbook export -a, please ?
> That's what we would like to do for replacing '# TODO: Backup cookbooks'
>

There is not such option. I think the closer thing is to do:
knife cookbook list | while read cb ; do knife cookbook download $cb
-d backup/ ; done

Or something similar.
You could save the last version (as in the example), all the versions,
commit to the svn, etc, but I guess it must be (by now) still as a
script or Rake task.

I was thinking about make my own Knife plugin to sync the repos, but
probably it would be interesting to have some sync functionalities at
the Knife's core...

-- 
Juanje