knife cookbook site downland with all dependencies

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I’m just starting out with chef, and I’m following http://gettingstartedwithchef.com. One thing it suggests is using knife cookbook site download $COOKBOOK_NAME to get community cookbooks. However sometimes they come with dependencies, and I then have to wait untill Vagrant tells me there’s a problem and then manually download and install the packages one by one.

Is there anyway to get knife to download all the dependencies that a cookbook needs? It would speed things up.

I noticed knife cookbook site install, but that wants to do a pile of git stuff, which I don’t want to do. I want to download the cookbook (which also means dependencies), I don’t want to be making commits.

Is this possible?

Answer

Use Berkshelf or Librarian to manage your cookbooks. It is MUCH easier than doing it with knife, and handles dependencies for you.

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Source : Link , Question Author : Amandasaurus , Answer Author : Tejay Cardon

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