[chef] RE: Re: which cookbook version used in chef-client run?

[Florian Hehlen < >]

It would be really good to have this logged by default. I got into a problem 
where as far as I can see chef chose to one version over an other of recipe 
and it took me a while to figure out that this was happening. Having the 
versions logged would have helped identify the problem.

Here is what happened. Imagine three cookbooks A,B, C. B and C depend on A. 
But they don't necessarily depend on the same version of A because B and C 
just do different things. Now imagine B depends explicitly on version 1 of A 
and C depends explicitly on version 2 of A. Finally lets say I add B and C to 
the run list of a node.

The question is: Which version of A will be used? What I saw was that version 
1 was being used for both. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this expected 
behavior. It does not seem to respect the cookbook' depends' contract.

Cheers,
Florian

-----Original Message-----
From: Julian C. Dunn 
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Sent: 10 October 2013 14:44
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Subject: [chef] Re: which cookbook version used in chef-client run?

It's a little dirty, but if you crack open the run context you can do it:

---8<--- cut here ---8<---

log "---Writing all ckbks and versions---"
cookbooks = @run_context.cookbook_collection

log "The recipes were these: #{cookbooks.keys.map {|x| cookbooks[x].name + " 
" + cookbooks[x].version} }"
log "---End Writing all ckbks and versions---

---8<--- cut here ---8<---


Credit goes to Sean Horn for this tidbit of code.

- Julian

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Florian Hehlen 
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 wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Is there a way to list or to log which cookbook version was used
> during a chef-client run. I know I can crack open metadata.rb files in
> the chef/cache directory but that is a bit clunky. It is also usefull
> information to log I would say.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Flo



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