Remove File from Cookbook?

Chef Infra (archive)
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Hi,

is there a simple possibillity to remove a file from a cookbook?

If I just delete the file doing a knife upload afterwards the file is still existent within chef, which is shown when I download the cookbook again with knife download.

Thanks for your help.

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Version: Chef: 12.3.0

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Current workaround is to create a new version of a cookbook where the unwanted file is deleted before the new cookbook version is initially uploaded.

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Well deleting a file from a cookbook without bumping this cookbook version can lead to this kind of edge case because bookshelf is not a git repo, bookshelf checks the checksums of files before writing them to disk and linking this file to the cookbook version, a deletion can’t be checksumed, so the old file is still linked to the cookbook version.