[chef] Berks & Kitchen Interaction

[Stephen Nelson-Smith < >]

Can someone clarify exactly how berks and kitchen interact in this scenario:

Cookbook under test: passenger_nginx_vhost_test

This is a cookbook to test an LWRP that I am writing in the cookbook
'passenger_nginx'

The 'passenger_nginx' cookbook is a dependency for passenger_nginx_vhost_test.

When I first ran kitchen converge, the Berksfile this pointed to git
which obviously lacked the LWRP, as I hadn't written it, but once I
started working on the LWRP I updated the Berksfile to point to the
cookbook on disk:

$ grep passenger Berksfile
cookbook 'passenger_nginx', path: '/home/kitchen/passenger_nginx'

Upon running another kitchen converge, the cookbook on the test
instance was still the old one from git.  I then bumped the version in
the passenger_nginx metadata and tried a converge again.  Same effect.
In order to get the updated cookbook transferred to the test instance
I needed to run a manual berks update, which pulled in the newer
cookbook from disk, and was subsequently used by kitchen converge.

My expectation is that this intermediate berks update is unnecessary.

Am I missing something?

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