[chef] Re: Re: Role attributes are not getting propogated as expected

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

What version of chef-client is this? If it’s 11.x, can you add `pp 
node.debug_value(:webmanager)` to a recipe and see what it says?

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Daniel DeLeo


On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 4:12 AM, 

 
 wrote:

>  
> Interestingly it appears that precedence behaves in a different manner than 
> I
> understood.
>  
> We have many attributes in the attribute tree node[:webmanager] defined as
> default attribute in cookbook.
>  
> E.g.
> node[:webmanager][:software] --> subtree contains 3 attributes.
> node[:webmanager][:monitor] --> subtree contains 10 attributes.
> node[:webmanager][:Core] --> subtree contains 7 attributes.
> node[:webmanager][:ssl] --> subtree contains 5 attributes.
>  
> In this case if we set only the following 3 attributes at role level as
> override type, it's not getting assigned properly during the compile & 
> converge
> phase. Only in the end of client run it's getting updated to node object 
> tree.
> node[:webmanager][:features][:WindowsServices]
> node[:webmanager][:features][:Core]
> node[:webmanager][:features][:Gui]
>  
> Is this an expected behavior? Can't we override only one or two attributes 
> in
> 3rd level subtree of a main attribute tree using precedence?
>  
> ~Thanks