knife[:bootstrap_version] not honoured in knife.rb

[patcon]

This seems to work fine as an command line arg, but not in any knife.rb, in either $HOME or project level.

~/blendive/kitchens/project-kitchen (master ✘)✹✭ ᐅ gem list knife-solo           

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

knife-solo (0.4.2)
~/blendive/kitchens/project-kitchen (master ✘)✹✭ ᐅ cat .chef/knife.rb | grep version
knife[:boostrap_version] = '11.16.0'
~/blendive/kitchens/project-kitchen (master ✘)✹✭ ᐅ knife solo prepare admin@52.4.153.194                         
Bootstrapping Chef...
--2015-06-08 18:12:34--  https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh
Resolving www.opscode.com (www.opscode.com)... 166.78.227.233
Connecting to www.opscode.com (www.opscode.com)|166.78.227.233|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 18736 (18K) [application/x-sh]
Saving to: ‘install.sh’

install.sh          100%[=====================>]  18.30K  --.-KB/s   in 0s     

2015-06-08 18:12:34 (241 MB/s) - ‘install.sh’ saved [18736/18736]

sudo: unable to resolve host ip-172-30-0-8
Downloading Chef 12.3.0 for debian...
downloading https://www.opscode.com/chef/metadata?v=12.3.0&prerelease=false&nightlies=false&p=debian&pv=8.0&m=x86_64
  to file /tmp/install.sh.9881/metadata.txt
trying wget...
url https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/debian/6/x86_64/chef_12.3.0-1_amd64.deb
md5 0037eef6022e79ff572057b2a3388c92
sha256  ed31d9e3b607ddf1b545a9c9baecf05fff18d0653f98e20c5cb15d2ac879d0bd
downloaded metadata file looks valid...
downloading https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/debian/6/x86_64/chef_12.3.0-1_amd64.deb
  to file /tmp/install.sh.9881/chef_12.3.0-1_amd64.deb
trying wget...
Comparing checksum with sha256sum...
Installing Chef 12.3.0
installing with dpkg...
(Reading database ... 39551 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../chef_12.3.0-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking chef (12.3.0-1) over (12.3.0-1) ...
Setting up chef (12.3.0-1) ...
Thank you for installing Chef!                                           
~/blendive/kitchens/project-kitchen (master ✘)✹✭ ᐅ knife solo prepare admin@52.4.153.194 --bootstrap-version 11.16.0
Bootstrapping Chef...
--2015-06-08 18:15:03--  https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh
Resolving www.opscode.com (www.opscode.com)... 166.78.227.233
Connecting to www.opscode.com (www.opscode.com)|166.78.227.233|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 18736 (18K) [application/x-sh]
Saving to: ‘install.sh’

install.sh          100%[=====================>]  18.30K  --.-KB/s   in 0s     

2015-06-08 18:15:04 (176 MB/s) - ‘install.sh’ saved [18736/18736]

sudo: unable to resolve host ip-172-30-0-8
Downloading Chef 11.16.0 for debian...
downloading https://www.opscode.com/chef/metadata?v=11.16.0&prerelease=false&nightlies=false&p=debian&pv=8.0&m=x86_64
  to file /tmp/install.sh.10173/metadata.txt
trying wget...
url https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/debian/6/x86_64/chef_11.16.0-1_amd64.deb
md5 df6b429ab67b000c10fa9b5bdf5d0936
sha256  2b477e1081035cd3e7637b817fa2a9543096f41a04658bb2d1ce397312c90d8b
downloaded metadata file looks valid...
downloading https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/debian/6/x86_64/chef_11.16.0-1_amd64.deb
  to file /tmp/install.sh.10173/chef_11.16.0-1_amd64.deb
trying wget...
Comparing checksum with sha256sum...
Installing Chef 11.16.0
installing with dpkg...
dpkg: warning: downgrading chef from 12.3.0-1 to 11.16.0-1
(Reading database ... 39551 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../chef_11.16.0-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking chef (11.16.0-1) over (12.3.0-1) ...
Setting up chef (11.16.0-1) ...
Thank you for installing Chef!
~/blendive/kitchens/project-kitchen (master ✘)✹✭ ᐅ 

Any thoughts? Is there a trick to this?

[matschaffer]

https://github.com/matschaffer/knife-solo/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/solo_prepare.rb#L67 seems to say it should work. I'd probably run it with -VV to ensure it's getting down to the install command.