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Chef cookbook dependencies of dependencies

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http://serverfault.com – This might be a simple question - I am trying to install a cookbook (gitlab) I cloned the cookbook into a folder on my local drive and ran knife cookbook upload gitlab. Immediately it threw an error: Cookbook gitlab depends on cookbook postgresql version >= 0.0.0 So I ran knife cookbook site download postgresql It had some dependencies, which had further dependencies, and now I'm at the point where I am installing cookbooks I know I won't need (dmg, windows, etc.) I was under the impression that this stuff automatically resolved itself like aptitude or yum. Did I miss some cruci (HowTos)

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Submitted by dayu on 01/14/2013

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We're using Vagrant & Chef to provision the staging VM for our app.

Once I have a working cookbook, I upload it to chef-server and Jenkins hook ensures the staging env gets updated.

However, it's not clear to me how to try out the cookbook before I upload it.

Be gentle, I'm new to chef, trying to get my environment set up and have some new recipes to upload to my new chef server. I'm able to do some commands, and I was able to knife bootstrap the new node, so I'm pretty sure my configuration is correct.

It appears that it's trying to upload to localhost when I turn on verbose logging.

I'm learning Chef. My cookbooks are on Github. It seems the workflow goes:

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Is there a way to combine 1 and 2? It's not critical, but sometimes I need to conserve bandwidth.

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Summary:

I'm running into a problem with "knife data bag from file", where knife doesn't recognize the .json data bag file pulled down from a remote git repo.

Background:

I'm currently trying to transition from chef-solo use to chef server while using the cookbooks, data bags and other chef info from our remote git repo.

I've currently pulled down a copy of our git repo and set the cookbook pa

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