`grep depends metadata.rb`:
depends 'apt'
depends 'build-essential'
depends 'ruby-ng', '~> 0.1.1'
depends 'redis2', '~> 0.5.0'
However there is an option not to use ruby-ng and redis2 cookbooks, which is really useful since there are plenty of different 'ruby' and 'redis' cookbooks and cookbook developer should always let user use another cookbook to install dependencies.
# dependency install type:
#
# - auto: let the cookbook try to figure it out
# - none: will be installed by other means and available in system path
#
default["lita"]["ruby_install_type"] = "auto"
default["lita"]["redis_install_type"] = "auto"
It doesn't make any sense to require those cookbooks to be uploaded to chef-server if I'm not going to use them:
% knife cookbook upload lita
Uploading lita [0.0.3]
ERROR: Cookbook lita depends on cookbooks which are not currently
ERROR: being uploaded and cannot be found on the server.
ERROR: The missing cookbook(s) are: 'ruby-ng' version '~> 0.1.1', 'redis2' version '~> 0.5.0'
It's a common problem for most cookbooks. Is there a good way to work it around?
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Best regards,
Koldaev Anton