[chef] Re: checksum values in attribute files

[Christopher Kampmeier < >]

Excellent.  That was the issue.  Since we're so used to representing a hierarchy of attributes, we lost sight of this special circumstance. It's a wonder that we don't encounter this more often.

Thanks for your insight.

On Monday, July 22, 2013, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

On Monday, July 22, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Lucas Hansen wrote:

IndexError

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string not matched

Cookbook Trace:

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/.../chef/cookbooks/foo/attributes/default.rb:6:in `[]='

/.../chef/cookbooks/foo/attributes/default.rb:6:in `from_file'

Relevant File Content:

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/.../chef/cookbooks/foo/attributes/default.rb:

1: ...

...

6>> default['foo']['package']['checksum'] =

'c22bb6a227359748618ca1f6fc31b6a05fef3f19dc8251ffb15233b775cd6aff'

Is default["foo"]["package"] set to a string?

Looks like the same error as this:

irb(main):004:0> "xyz"["a"] = "b"

IndexError: string not matched

from (irb):4:in `[]='

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Daniel DeLeo