[chef] Re: Re: cookbook directory names

[Sam Darwin < >]

>> why you would do this?

For chef-solo.  So, chef server can store multiple versions of a cookbook, based on metadata, and therefore it's not necessary in that case.    With chef-solo, you might at times like to alternate between two versions of another cookbook, and since chef-solo can not simultaneously store different cookbooks in a database, then having them in-parallel such as qwerty-1.0.1 and qwerty-1.2.3 might be helpful.    Apparently it can not parse qwerty-1.2.3 though.

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Tara Hernandez < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

One is curious as to why you would do this rather than just using the
version metadata to differentiate between versions?

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On 11/11/14, 12:00 PM, "Sam Darwin" < "> > wrote:

>Hi,
>
>is it acceptable to name cookbooks with the version included in the
>directory
>name within the cookbook repo?   for example
>/cookbooks/build-essential-1.4.2/
>, for the build-essential cookbook.
>
>after some simple testing, it seems that chef server will support this
>naming,
>however chef-solo will not.     could chef-solo parse such cookbooks?
>
>Thanks.