chef install requires .rb file present

[mattray]

Description

chef install CLI output "You can use the lockfile to install the locked cookbooks on another machine."

If you copy a lock.json to another system, you get output like this:

$ chef install base.lock.json
Error: Policyfile not found at path /home/mattray/base.rb
$ chef export base.lock.json --archive .
Error: Invalid lockfile data
Reason: (ChefCLI::CachedCookbookNotFound) Cookbook `audit' not found at expected cache location `audit-9.4.0-supermarket.chef.io' (full path: `/home/mattray/.chef-workstation/cache/cookbooks/audit-9.4.0-supermarket.chef.io')

But if you just create an empty file, it works.

$ touch base.rb
$ chef install base.lock.json
Installing cookbooks from lock
Installing audit       9.4.0 
Installing chef-client 11.5.0
Installing cron        6.3.1 
Installing iptables    7.1.0 
Installing logrotate   2.2.3 
Installing openssh     2.8.1 
$ chef export base.lock.json --archive .
Exported policy 'base' to /home/mattray/base-f2263ceeb4cc1ddd9ea2dd0eb70718bb1e63cdbec1c9686b4340c3ab8c372824.tgz

Chef Workstation Version

Workstation 20.6.62 on

Platform Version

MacOS 14 and Debian 10

Aha! Link: https://chef.aha.io/features/SH-2414

[tyler-ball]

Thanks for the repro example Matt, getting this triaged

[tas50]

Fixed chef/chef-cli#131