[chef] Role Versioning?

[Torben Knerr < >]

Hey guys,

there was a recent discussion about "role cookbooks" in IRC where @threescoops posted a link to the wiki where versioning for roles is mentioned as a proposal:

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Infrastructure+Proposal#InfrastructureProposal-Roles

Just wanted to throw in my 5 cents and continue discussion here:

[12:56] <tknerr> zts, threescoops: i would be happy as well if:

[12:56] <tknerr> zts, threescoops: roles could be versioned

[12:56] <tknerr> zts, threescoops: and i could define cookbook version constraints in the roles (want to lock down transitive cookbook dependencies as well)

[12:56] <tknerr> zts, threescoops: and in the environments i would specify the role versions rather than cookbook versions

Does that make any sense, or am I on the wrong path here?

Cheers, Torben