[chef] Quickly check if a runlist's cookbook version constraints are satisfied?

[Harry Wilkinson < >]

Hi all.

Is there some nice convenient way to check whether cookbook constraints can be satisfied for a given runlist in a given environment?

I'm trying to add a lot of new constraints to an environment that has had almost none for quite a while. At first I just added a simple constraint for every cookbook to specify that each one must be the latest available version, but I quickly found that made the dependencies unsolvable for some runlists, as some cookbooks (eg. the nginx community cookbook) have pessimistic version constraints.

I would like to check that the dependencies are solvable without having to actually verify a real convergence on every single runlist (there are a lot of them). Is there some easy way to exercise that dependency resolution process on its own?

Thanks.

Harry

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