[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Versioning forked cookbooks

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, August 8, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Mike wrote:

> This is currently an unsolved problem.
> There's a lot of contention around versioning and Chef, and there's no 
> clear workflow for "what works best".
>  
> The flow Ranjib mentioned is one we do as well, and we don't freeze 
> cookbooks on upload for this reason.  
>  
> Is it perfect? Nope. But it works for now, at least until we can introduce 
> better version identifiers in to Chef, chef-client, knife, and any plugins 
> that we leverage for that to speak the same versioning language.  
>  
> -M
Not an immediate solution, but we’re working on it. See 
https://github.com/opscode/chef-dk/blob/master/POLICYFILE_README.md and ;
https://github.com/opscode/chef-rfc/pull/20  ;

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Daniel DeLeo