[chef] Re: Re: Re: Updating a template

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Kenneth Barry wrote:
> "First of all, did you change the cookbook’s version?"
> Yes, I changed the version of the cookbook
>  
> " If so, you should check which version was downloaded to the client. "  
> i don't know how to see what version was downloaded to the client (do you 
> mean Node?), but what I do know if when i download from the chef server 
> "knife cookbook download [name]" I get the old template file (containing 
> the old content)

The most straightforward way to see what version is on a node is to look at 
the metadata file in the cache directory.

Also, have you uploaded with the `-VV` option and inspected the output? In 
particular, you’ll see lines like this:

DEBUG: /Users/ddeleo/oc/all_cookbooks/mysql/templates/default/grants.sql.erb 
has not changed

Do you get such a line for your template?

Also, with `knife cookbook show COOKBOOK VERSION`, you get the raw data the 
server stores about the cookbook, including md5s of each of the files and 
pre-signed URLs to download them. Can you check whether these pertain to the 
new or old files?

Finally, do you have more than one directory configured as your 
cookbook_path, and is there a version of the cookbook in more than one of 
these directories?
  
>  
> "If chef-client is downloading a different version than you expected, it 
> could be caused by "  
>  
>  
> "dependency constraints in your environment or in other cookbooks,"
> we are not using any constraints in our environments. period.

Dependency contraints in cookbooks will be honored, so the dependency solver 
still needs to get the set of cookbooks that honor those constraints even if 
there’s nothing in your environments.


--  
Daniel DeLeo