ChefDK for OS X (.dmg file) and Ubuntu (.deb) breaks ...site install because of no metadata.rb

[dgorack]

The "latest" ChefDK installations for OS X and Ubuntu (maybe others but only tested these) errors out when running knife cookbook site install mysql
Output: ERROR: IOError: Cannot open or read /Users/dgoradia/chef-repo/cookbooks/mysql/metadata.rb!

This is happening because the mysql cookbook uses metedata.json instead.
More info: chef/chef#2345

$ knife --version
Chef: 11.18.0.rc.1

This should be 12.0.x

$ chef --version
Chef Development Kit Version: 0.3.5

[danielsdeleo]

We're planning to ship Chef 11.18.0 with bug fixes such as this one and then release one more ChefDK 0.3.x with that version of Chef, then ship a ChefDK 0.4.0 with Chef 12.x. This has been held up by much of the team being on holiday vacations, and a company-wide meeting to start the year but work on this should pick up later this week and next week.

Since this is already tracked and scheduled for the correct back ports in the upstream issue, I'm going to close the issue here.

[dgoradia]

Thanks. In the meantime I just built chefdk from the omnibus-chef project with chef 12.0.3 which has resolved the issue for me.