metadata.rb file missing from chef-client-4.2.0.tar.gz

[jfbibeau]

Hey,

So I'm trying to upgrade chef-client cookbook within my repo from 4.0.0 to 4.2.0, but the process keeps failing with:

Cookbook chef-client version 4.2.0 successfully installed
ERROR: IOError: Cannot open or read /home/jbibeau/chef-repo/cookbooks/chef-client/metadata.rb!

Looking at the fast forward merge that takes place, the metadata.rb file clearly gets deleted

Checking out the master branch.
Updating f3215c2..be2a18f
Fast-forward
...
 cookbooks/chef-client/metadata.rb                                                    | 35 -----------------------------------
...

I then tried to do a knife cookbook site download chef-client and looking at the raw .tar.gz, and it is indeed missing the metadata.rb file.

Is this a bug in the release? The file still seems to be present in the repo...
Thanks!

[juliandunn]

I use Stove to upload the cookbooks and this is all explained over in chef-boneyard/stove#59.

New-enough knives know how to deal with cookbooks that only contain compiled metadata.

[jfbibeau]

Perfect, good find, you put my Google-fu to shame :)