[chef] Re: Using libraries in attributes file to fetch values from a service.

[Steffen Gebert < >]

Hi,

isn't this what I've been asking for here?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22844080/chef-use-library-function-in-attributes

If yes, then my experience is that this isn't working.

Yours
Steffen


On 22/08/14 16:30, Daniel Condomitti wrote:
> Yeah I’ll try to put one together. Now that I think about it we’re on 
> 11.6.0 but I started using that workaround/haven’t tested since 10.16.
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> On Friday, August 22, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:
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>> On Friday, August 22, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Daniel Condomitti wrote:
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>>> Is anyone aware of a way to load libraries from another cookbook without 
>>> requiring a recipe from it? A depends statement isn't enough in 
>>> metadata.rb to make them available in my experience. I usually just dump 
>>> an empty recipe in the cookbook containing the library I want to use. Is 
>>> this expected / designed behavior or should I fix it?
>>>  
>>> Dan
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>> `depends` ought to do it. If it didn’t then you couldn’t `include_recipe` 
>> from another cookbook and all sorts of things wouldn’t be working. Can you 
>> come up with a reproduction case that demonstrates the behavior you’re 
>> seeing?
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>> --  
>> Daniel DeLeo  
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