cookbook_file error gives incomplete list of search locations

[lindes]

When using a cookbook_file directive, one of the locations that Chef looks for files is based on the FQDN of the hostname in question, prepended by host-. I'd missed the host- prepend in my reading of some instructions on this point, and was having a situation where Chef couldn't find the file; in doing so, it presented a list of locations that it had looked, but that list did not include the host-<FQDN> subdirectory.

The commit that introduced the current messaging is 16a45a4. I believe this should probably be referencing the preferences variable, since preferences_for_path seems to be what generates the list of files that are actually checked... But I'm not very familiar with this codebase, and don't have a chef development environment set up just now, so hence submitting a ticket rather than a pull request.

Here's an example of the error message, from inside a Vagrant configuration:

==> server: [2014-06-10T23:03:31+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound: cookbook_file[/etc/foo.conf] (bcfg2::default line 4) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound: Cookbook 'foo' (0.0.0) does not contain a file at any of these locations:
==> server:   files/ubuntu-12.04/foo.conf
==> server:   files/ubuntu/foo.conf
==> server:   files/default/foo.conf

I would expect to have an extra line (above the ubuntu-12.04 line), like:

==> server:   files/host-my-server.example.com/foo.conf

[sersut]

Agreed @lindes. This would be a nice to have. Would be cool if you can spare some time to take a stab at this. Let us know if we can give some pointers to get you started on this.

[aronwoost]

+1

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