[chef] Re: Chef find out parent cookbook in dependency

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 9:20 AM, M G wrote:

> Hi  
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> Lets say I have cookbook base and 2 cookbooks child1 and child 2
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> In cookbook child1s recipe , I include base in the following manner:
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> child1/recipes/default.rb
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> include_recipe "base"
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> The same setup for child2's default recipe
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> Now in base, is there a way to find out which is the calling cookbook 
> child1 or child2?
It might be possible in some terribly ugly way (like looking at `caller` to 
inspect the call stack) but you’re better off using some other mechanism (set 
a value in attributes or `node.run_state`).
  
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> Regards
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> mg  
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Daniel DeLeo