[chef] Re: Excessive dependency chaining?

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Jun 5, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Ranjib Dey 
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> the problem is chef server does not mandate version freeze for cookbooks. 
> You can upload the different content with same version, so for an external 
> tool like berkshelf its impossible to understand if the cookbook has 
> changed (since version is not the absolute indicator) , unless it does a 
> full download checksum based comparison (this is how chef-client works). So 
> its risky for a tool like berkshelf  to do this, but definitely its a good 
> option to have (in that case you might also like to specify only a subset 
> of cookbooks for which you want to do this).  

OTOH, Berkshelf could be configured to automatically update the version 
number on every change and freeze the version after uploading.  Since the 
version would have been incremented and frozen by Berkshelf itself, it should 
be safe to assume that the cookbook is unchanged if the version number hasn't 
changed.

Yes, I know people could un-freeze and then manually upload a different 
version with the same version number, but if they want to shoot themselves in 
the foot like that, then we should be prepared to let them do so.

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