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Cookbook @recipe_files not found when using recipe and single file

When I combine using a cookbook recipe and a single, non-recipe file using chef-client 12.5 on Windows, I get the error

Cookbook @recipe_files not found. If you're loading @recipe_files from another cookbook, make sure you configure the dependency in your metadata

For, example, my command line is

chef-client -r mycookbook::default /individual_recipes/my_non_cookbook_recipe.rb

Running 

chef-client -r mycookbook::default

or

chef-client /individual_recipes/my_non_cookbook_recipe.rb

works though. Is there a way to get the single command line to work? I don't want to create a whole separate cookbook for this single recipe file.

Thanks.

Solution

  • The ability to run single files is kind of an accident. We added chef-apply to make it more official and should probably deprecate it in chef-client. In neither case does it support this though.