How to set Chef Cookbook Dependencies in metadata file

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The issue I have is that there are cookbooks that exist on github with the same name as a cookbook on the chef cookbook site (monit is the cookbook). I am write a cookbook and want to use the github version, however berkshelf pulls the version from the chef site when I include the metadata keyword in my Berksfile. I tried to override this in the Berksfile. here is the content of mt berksfile:

site :opscode
cookbook "monit" , git: "https://github.com/phlipper/chef-monit.git"

metadata

Looks like all I needed to do was remove my Berksfile.lock and move the monit line after the metadata line. Now when I "vagrant up" it pulls the version from github and all things work. — rkesters, Jan 04 '14 at 21:04

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 04 '14 at 17:28

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This is a known issue in Berkshelf.

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answered Jan 04 '14 at 17:28

sethvargo

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 17 '20 at 18:56

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Add the cookbook in metadata file in last and name of cookbook should be in single quotes , below is the example

depends 'test'

answered Dec 17 '20 at 18:56

Rahul Bhardwaj

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if you want to add depedency cookbook version for particular version , you can mention it depends 'test', '= 1.0.0' – Rahul Bhardwaj Dec 17 '20 at 19:13

How to set Chef Cookbook Dependencies in metadata file

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