berks install broken (v2.0.*)

[dhawal55]

First, gem install berkshelf -v 2.0.* is broken as it cannot resolve buff-extensions dependency.

ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::DependencyError)
Unable to resolve dependencies: ridley requires buff-extensions (> 0.3); buff-config requires buff-extensions (> 0.3)

I got past that issue by manually install buff-extensions.

Now i get an error when using berks install:
`raise_if_conflicts': Unable to activate buff-config-0.4.0, because buff-extensions-1.0.0 conflicts with buff-extensions (~> 0.3) (Gem::LoadError)

I'm using ruby version 1.9.3p484 (2013-11-22) [i386-mingw32]

[sethvargo]

Hi @dhawal55. Thank you for the report. Unfortunately Berkshelf 2 is no longer supported. I would recommend upgrading to Berkshelf 3 and using the Chef DK installer.

Please let me know if you have problems with the ChefDK installer.

[dhawal55]

ChekDK installer is not available for windows yet. And I need to setup Berks API for using Berkshelf 3.0 with Chef server.

Is there anyway to use use Berks 3.0 with Chef solo without having to setup Berks API?

[sethvargo]

@dhawal55 if you are using all community cookbooks, you do not need a Berkshelf API server. It's only when you have custom versioned cookbooks internally that you need to run a cookbook store and API server.

[rajivr]

@dhawal55 If you are on a RedHat/CentOS/Fedora/Amazon Linux kind of distro, please let me know and I'll provide you with a RPM (omnibus) build of Berkshelf 2.0.16 that we're using along with Chef Solo. Through Vagrant you'll be able to manage your cookbooks as outlined below.

http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2014-05/msg00215.html

Chef DK will eventually get there, but right now this approach is very stable for us and am happy to share the RPM if it is going to be useful to you. Thank you!

[dhawal55]

Thank you for the quick response. I'm working with custom cookbooks (enterprise chef server) on windows. So the above answers don't help me.

[jacketattack]

Using berkshelf version 2.0.18, I was having this issue whenever I tried to run any berks command and found a solution by specifically installing version 0.3.2 of varia_model. This removes the need for buff-extensions 1.0.0.

gem uninstall varia_model --force
gem install varia_model -v 0.3.2