[chef] Re: Re: How to obtain cookbook dependencies from metadata.rb?

[Mike < >]

> Has someone done something like this already?
Um, berkshelf. :)

You can probably figure out some of the work from there. But I have no
idea if the Chef cookbook metadata parser will allow for anything
other than a version string following a cookbook name.

Ref: 
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/10-stable/chef/lib/chef/cookbook/metadata.rb#L252-L267

-M

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Torben Knerr 
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 wrote:
> Background:
>
> First, I want to emulate Berkshelfs 'metadata' keyword inside a librarian
> Cheffile.
>
> Then I want to override the location for some of the metadata-defined
> cookbook dependencies in the Cheffile (e.g. use github branch rather than
> community site)
>
> Has someone done something like this already?
>
> Am 09.01.2013 22:44 schrieb "Torben Knerr" 
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 >:
>
>> Ohai Chefs,
>>
>> what's the easiest way to obtain the cookbook dependencies defined in
>> metadata.rb (only direct dependencies are required)?
>>
>> I'm not too firm with the chef internals yet, thus my first idea was to
>> evaluate metadata.rb and recording the `depends` calls via `method_missing`
>> - but this doesn't feels quite right...
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Torben