[chef] Re: Re: Cannot find a cookbook named...

[Russell Bateman < >]

Sacha, Brad,

Bingo!

At first, I didn't see what inter-dependency existed especially as I was 
only thinking about the two, mongodb and tomcat6, recipes in hand.

In fact, as an extreme beginner, I hadn't even thought about 
dependencies yet. But it dawned on me upon reading your comments (both 
posts) that the mongodb cookbook, which creates an error message 
containing the word "apt", must of course have a dependency on a 
cookbook for Aptitude, used to install MongoDB. I got that cookbook down 
from opscode and now all of them install. Rockin'!

(For the time being, Sacha, I've decided to try to steal opscode 
recipes, but I'll soon graduate to better opportunities of theft as I 
begin to recognize the virtues of recipes others are offering.)

Magic; and it gives me hope.

Profuse thanks for the new illumination on my horizon!

Russ


On 6/25/2013 6:13 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
> On Jun 25, 2013, at 5:39 PM, Sascha Bates 
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>  wrote:
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> > Hi Russ, what you are encountering here is cookbook dependencies.  These are 
> > documented in the metadata.rb of the cookbook:
> > https://github.com/edelight/chef-mongodb/blob/master/metadata.rb#L15
> >
> > There are a couple of different ways to cope with dependency management. I 
> > believe you can use `knife cookbook site install` and that will also pull 
> > dependencies that are listed in a metadata file.
> Also note that if you have two internal cookbooks which depend on each other, it is 
> possible to upload them both with the same "knife cookbook upload cookbook1 
> cookbook2" command.  This way, knife will search for dependencies not only the 
> list of cookbooks that are currently on the server but also the ones that you are 
> involved in uploading.
>
> It's not a good idea (in general) to have two cookbooks that both depend on 
> each other, but sometimes it happens, and knife gives you a way to deal with 
> that problem.
>
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