[chef] Re: Re: Cookbooks - Chef Supermarket - Downloads counter

[Christopher Webber < >]

Kinda, but not really. 

I should write a blog post about this but the TL;DR is that older 
berkshelf-api servers had to download every cookbook to build the /universe 
endpoint. They, by default, did this every 5 mins. 

I will try and get a post together next week with more details. I do want to 
make it clear that, until supermarket was released, downloading every 
cookbook was the only way to get the data needed to build the /universe 
endpoint. 

Thanks!

-- cwebber

> On Jan 18, 2015, at 17:08, Julian C. Dunn 
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>> On Jan 18, 2015, at 6:58 PM, Vincenzo D'Amore 
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>> does anyone know how works the number of downloads counter in the 
>> supermaket cookbook?
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>> Just to be clear, I have published few days ago an this empty cookbook:
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>> https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/empty
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>> now I see about 30k downloads (and counting), which are a little bit too 
>> many for an empty cookbook, isn't it?
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> I think it’s because every time Berkshelf hits the /universe endpoint to 
> resolve dependencies, it increments the access count of all cookbooks.
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> - Julian
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