[chef] Berkshelf Question: cookbook versioning in metadata vs. berksfile

[Kevin Karwaski < >]

Ohai Chefs,

We've been looking at implementing a Berkshelf based workflow within
my org and we've hit some challenges managing dependent cookbook
version constraints.

Basically, we'd like to bind the dependent cookbook version constraint
in the app cookbook's metadata and use chef_api in the Berkshelf file
to point to our chef server.

For example:

Cookbook 'Foo App' metadata.rb contains:
depends 'bar', '1.0.0'

Berksfile contains:
metadata
chef_api :config
site :opscode

cookbook 'bar'


However, the version constraint in the metadata file is not observed;
berks just fetches the latest version of the 'bar' cookbook on our
chef server.

Is there any way to force Berkshelf to respect the version constraint
in metadata? Am I missing something here? Maybe I'm not approaching
this the right way but any insight/feedback would be greatly
appreciated.

$ berks --version
Berkshelf (2.0.3)

Thanks!
-K.

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Kevin Karwaski
Operations Engineer @ {Fiksu}