Chef fails to run if cookbooks get compressed on OS X

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  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 0.10.2
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Chef Client, Chef Solo
  • Environment:

    Developing recipes on OS X. Deploying to RHEL images

Description

When I compress (.zip or .tar.gz) my cookbooks on my OS X development machine, a *._<file name>* file of each cookbook file gets included in the compression. When I then download these cookbooks, expand the files, and run chef-solo on a RHEL/Linux machine - chef completely fails.

The reason for this is because Chef's client (chef-client or chef-solo) evaluates all files that end in .rb during its compilation phase. Since OS X ends up creating a bunch of ._<file name>.rb files that contain *binary* data instead of *ruby code*, chef completely fails.

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John Ryding added a comment - - edited

The workaround I found for this issue is to run the following command before running chef-solo:

find <root chef folder>/cookbooks -name "._*" -exec rm {} \;
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John Ryding added a comment - - edited The workaround I found for this issue is to run the following command before running chef-solo: find <root chef folder>/cookbooks -name "._*" -exec rm {} \;

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    Reporter:
    John Ryding
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