[chef] Re: Using Berkshelf 3 with multiple sources

[Tensibai Zhaoying < >]

I'm not a skilled user of Berkshire, but what I understood is that your 4th option is the way Berkshire was intended, each cookbook should specify which cookbook in which version it needs.
You may even give a github or local path to a cookbook you modified fir your needs and so overwriting the sources...

---- Anton Koldaev a écrit ----

Are there some good practices on using Chef with multiple sources?

Let's assume I have the following setup:

1. Private cookbooks repo

- apt v0.0.1

2. supermarket.getchef.com

- apt v0.0.2

3. Cookbook mycook depends on apt cookbook.

4. Both apt v0.0.1 and v0.0.2 are already installed(as dependencies of some other cookbooks) in ~/.berkshelf/cookbooks

5. mycook/Berksfile:

source 'my-private-repo'

source 'supermarket'

metadata

In such setup `berks install` from 'mycoook' cookbook will always be using the highest available version found in ~/.berkshelf/cookbooks, in this case it's apt v0.0.2. It doesn't care about the order of sources in Berksfile. I understand why it happens but it doesn't suit me.

To make Berkshelf using apt v.0.0.1 I can:

1. remove apt 0.0.2 from ~/.berkshelf/cookbooks

or

2. `berks vendor` cookbook in dir other than ~/.berkshelf/cookbooks

or

3. specify private source for 'apt' cookbook in Berksfile

or

4. specify v0.0.1 version for 'apt' cookbook in Berksfile

Since I have a lot of private cookbooks intersecting with community's cookbooks specifying source or version in Berksfile for each dependent cookbook is not a great idea.

Options 1 and 2 require extra actions instead of simple `berks install`.

Is there a better way of handling such workflow?

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Best regards,
Koldaev Anton