Cookbook 'seven_zip' version '3.1.0' depends on chef version [">= 13.0"], but the running chef version is 12.21.12

[KerbenII]

Cookbook version

6.1.1

Chef-client version

12.21.12

Platform Details

Ubuntu 18.04

Scenario:

I just want to execute php::install recipe

Steps to Reproduce:

Copy and paste the following files to one directory.
Install vagrant (vagrantup.com) and execute following commands:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf
vagrant up

The Vagrant wil build machine for you.

Berksfile

source "https://supermarket.chef.io"
cookbook 'php', '~> 6.1.1'

Berksfile.lock

DEPENDENCIES
  php (~> 6.1.1)

GRAPH
  build-essential (8.2.1)
    mingw (>= 1.1)
    seven_zip (>= 0.0.0)
  mingw (2.1.0)
    seven_zip (>= 0.0.0)
  php (6.1.1)
    build-essential (>= 5.0)
    yum-epel (>= 0.0.0)
  seven_zip (3.1.0)
    windows (>= 0.0.0)
  windows (6.0.0)
  yum-epel (3.3.0)

Vagrantfile:

# encoding: utf-8
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

ENV['VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER'] = 'virtualbox'

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"


Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|

  config.berkshelf.enabled = true
  config.berkshelf.berksfile_path = "./Berksfile"
    config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64"
  config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.14.99"

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v, override|
    v.name = "Chef12 Ubuntu 18.04 PHP 7 - Test"
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--rtcuseutc", "on"]
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpuexecutioncap", "90"]
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "2048"]
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", "2"]

  end

  config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
    chef.channel = "stable"
    chef.version = "12.21.12"
    chef.cookbooks_path = "cookbooks"
    chef.add_recipe "php::install"
    chef.json = {
    }
  end
end

Expected Result:

Recipe execute succesfully.

Actual Result:

==> default: [2019-05-23T11:11:29+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
==> default: [2019-05-23T11:11:29+00:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace.out file if you file a bug report
==> default: [2019-05-23T11:11:29+00:00] ERROR: Cookbook 'seven_zip' version '3.1.0' depends on chef version [">= 13.0"], but the running chef version is 12.21.12
==> default: [2019-05-23T11:11:29+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)
Chef never successfully completed! Any errors should be visible in the
output above. Please fix your recipes so that they properly complete.

[damacus]

Hi @KerbenII sorry for taking so long to get back to you here.

This one is a nice easy message, there's an underlying cookbook that requires a newer version of Chef than you are running. i.e. 7zip requires Chef-13 and you're only running Chef-12 which is now EOL.

Thanks for raising such a clear issue, it made it nice and easy to debug