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

[Torben Knerr < >]

There was once https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4027 to support
SemVer with prerelease version identifiers, that would help in this
situation.

Not sure if it will ever come, though...

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Andrew Brown 
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> Thank you!
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> On 2014-08-08, 3:44 PM, "Daniel DeLeo" 
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>>On Friday, August 8, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Mike wrote:
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>>> 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 we¹re 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
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