[chef] Re: Edit old Cookbook versions

[Eric Feldhusen < >]

No, I see that's not the way to go.

Eric

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Eric Feldhusen < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Or because I literally just need to change an IP address in a couple of recipes for now, could I just go to the /var/opt/chef-server/bookshelf/data/bookshelf directory and quick edit the file or will that really break stuff?

Eric

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Eric Feldhusen < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I took over an existing Chef server and it has several cookbooks with multiple versions, with various environments locked to several of those versions. 

I now need to edit multiple cookbook versions to fix hardcoded items due to changes in our environment and I was wondering what the best way to handle making those changes would be? 

I was thinking I could create various git branches on my workstation and knife download the specific version, change the hardcode item(s), and force a cookbook upload. 

It's not perfect, but it helps until I can move various servers/environments to latest cookbook versions.

Eric Feldhusen