[chef] Re: RE : ERROR: Cookbook app_test not found

["Flores, Luis Fernando (GE Capital, Non-GE)" < >]

Hello Léonard,

regarding: "VM manager (Virtualbox?) To check how many boxes you have there 
?"  --There are none, I just 'vagrant destroy' them and start a new each 
time… is it not appropriate?

"Does app_test contain the usual "templates", "attributes" etc directories 
Where is your Vagrantfile located ? " -- The app_test is a regular cookbook 
structure, it is a directory below 'chef-repo/cookbooks' so the path to the 
cookbook files including "recipes", "attributes", "templates", etc would be: 
"~/chef-repo/cookbooks/app_test"

"Looks like chef tries to locate your cookbook in the default cookbooks 
directory coz you didn't specify any cookbooks path. "  -- I think this is 
the "cookbook_path" part (variable?) in the knife.rb, isn't it?

I will be trying to locate the Vagrantfile in the chef_repo directory and 
vagrant up from there and use the "cookbooks_path" in my Vagrantfile as you 
suggest.

Thank you.

Luis Fernando Flores
+52 449 9107800 xt: 6241
Av. Eugenio Garza Sada #902
Parque Industrial Tecnopolo
Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes,
Mexico 20328

On Aug 21, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Léonard Messier 
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Hi,

I quite sure knife has nothing to do with the provisioning of your vagrant 
box.
It must be used by test-kitchen when the tests are run but this probably 
ain't the same vagrant box than the one that's fired when you do a "vagrant 
up". Have you opened up your VM manager (Virtualbox?) To check how many boxes 
you have there ?

Actually, there's a "cookbooks_path" variable that can be used in your 
Vagrantfile.

Plus, I don't really understand your project structure.  Does app_test 
contain the usual "templates", "attributes" etc directories ?
Where is your Vagrantfile located ?

Looks like chef tries to locate your cookbook in the default cookbooks 
directory coz you didn't specify any cookbooks path.

Since you seem to do vagrant up inside the cookbook itself, it looks in the 
wrong place. You should have your Vagrantfile in the chef_repo directory and 
launch vagrant up from there.

Good luck



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Objet : [chef] ERROR: Cookbook app_test not found



Hello master Chefs,

I am testing a cookbook app_test with a Vagrant virtual box VM; when I do 
'vagrant up' at the cookbook location, I get this message:

[2014-08-21T15:46:42-04:00] ERROR: Cookbook app_test not found. If you're 
loading app_test from another cookbook, make sure you configure the 
dependency in your metadata

I notice that at the start of the run, vagrant sends this message:
[application_box] The cookbook path 
'/Users/luis.flores/chef_repo/cookbooks/app_test/cookbooks' doesn't exist. 
Ignoring…

My knife.rb states the cookbook path as ..
cookbook_path            "#{ENV['HOME']}/chef_repo"  # I have tried with  
"#{ENV['HOME']}/chef_repo/cookbooks" with same result

As you can see, the last "/cookbooks" is being added in runtime, I have 
checked my Vagrantfile, metadata.rb and kitchen.yml and none has a cookbook 
path to add. I don't know which component is adding that reference, all I 
know is the 'knife.rb' file should specify that value, so… What is happening?

Regards.

Luis Fernando Flores
+52 449 9107800 xt: 6241
Av. Eugenio Garza Sada #902
Parque Industrial Tecnopolo
Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes,
Mexico 20328