[chef] Re: Re: Re: cookbook directory names

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Sam Darwin wrote:
>  
> > > 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.

We’ve made some changes in Chef 12 to support directory names like this, but 
there isn’t a mechanism for chef-solo to pick a preferred version from a 
directory containing multiple versions. For chef-solo, I’d recommend using a 
tool like berks to get you a set of cookbooks that work together (and you’ve 
tested together) and then ship them all together as an artifact.

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Daniel DeLeo