[chef] Re: Cookbook versions

[Michael Glenney < >]

I created an "update" folder in my local copy of our repo.  when I want to update a cookbook version older then what's in trunk I download the cookbook to trunk (root of trunk, not the "cookbooks" folder") and then move it to the update folder with the right name.  I think tell knife to upload it to the server from the upload folder (instead of looking for it in my default cookbooks path):

cd trunk
knife cookbook download java 0.1.3
mv java-0.1.3 update/java
<make edits in update/java/>
knife cookbook upload java -o update/

MG

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Bridger Larson < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I don’t know if I am just missing something obvious or what, but is there a way to download/update your cookbook without downloading it to a directory with the version number?

 

For example, if I download my latest java cookbook, it will download it to a directory called java-0.1.3 instead of just to the java directory.  I have tried using the -d flag to specify the cookbooks/java directory, but it just downloads it to cookbooks/java/java-0.1.3. 

 

If I then make modifications to the scripts in java-0.1.3 I have to copy the modifications to the java directory to actually upload the cookbook.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Bridger Larson