knife cookbook site install elkstack

[lawrencegs]

I'm getting this issue using knife?

$ knife cookbook site install elkstack
Installing elkstack to/redacted/mychef/cookbooks
Checking out the master branch.
Pristine copy branch (chef-vendor-elkstack) exists, switching to it.
Downloading elkstack from the cookbooks site at version 4.2.0 to /redacted/mychef/cookbooks/elkstack.tar.gz
Cookbook saved: /redacted/mychef/cookbooks/elkstack.tar.gz
Removing pre-existing version.
Uncompressing elkstack version 4.2.0.
removing downloaded tarball
No changes made to elkstack
Checking out the master branch.
ERROR: Chef::Exceptions::MetadataNotFound: No metadata.rb or metadata.json!

[lawrencegs]

Nvm, clean up the branches, and now I got different error:

.... <<redacted>>

Downloading windows from the cookbooks site at version 1.36.6 to /Users/Lawrence/workspace/PTLOKET/loket-chef/cookbooks/windows.tar.gz
Cookbook saved: /Users/Lawrence/workspace/PTLOKET/loket-chef/cookbooks/windows.tar.gz
Removing pre-existing version.
Uncompressing windows version 1.36.6.
removing downloaded tarball
1 files updated, committing changes
ERROR: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
---- Begin output of git commit -m "Import windows version 1.36.6" -- windows ----
STDOUT: On branch chef-vendor-windows
nothing to commit, working directory clean
STDERR:
---- End output of git commit -m "Import windows version 1.36.6" -- windows ----
Ran git commit -m "Import windows version 1.36.6" -- windows returned 1

[lawrencegs]

After debugging, this seems to match the following knife bug: CHEF-5362

[martinb3]

Hi @lawrencegs,

There's an interesting discussion about metadata and the first issue I think you saw.

I'm not as familiar with the second issue you describe, but it sounds like you were able to resolve it, so I will close this unless there's something we can do to the cookbook to help.

Cheers!