Warn about unreachable cookbooks in Policyfile
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Aspect: Packaging
Triage: Confirmed
Triage: Feature Request
Type: Design Proposal
- Dominant language
- Ruby
- Stars
- 18
- Forks
- 23
- Avg merge
- 5d 17h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 1
Description
Description
A policyfile compile (e.g. chef install or chef update) should warn about cookbooks that have been included in the policy but are not reachable via dependencies of the cookbooks mentioned in the run lists.
See this discussion in the Chef Community Slack Channel - #policyfile - 26th Feb 2019 9:39pm UTC
Contributor guide
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Research direction
Start by tracing the Policyfile compile paths used by chef install and chef update, then inspect how cookbook dependencies and run lists are collected. Done means a compile warns when a cookbook included in the policy is not reachable through dependencies of cookbooks in the run lists.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- ruby
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100