Update the chef-config dependency version to be compatible with chefmcquin/fix-deps

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ohai.gemspec b/ohai.gemspec
index 359e456f..4b16a9f9 100644
--- a/ohai.gemspec
+++ b/ohai.gemspec
@@ -25,7 +25,15 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_dependency "ipaddress"
   s.add_dependency "wmi-lite", "~> 1.0"
   s.add_dependency "ffi", "~> 1.9"
-  s.add_dependency "chef-config", "~> 12.4"
+  # Note for ohai developers: If chef-config causes you grief, try:
+  #     bundle install --with development
+  # this should work as long as chef is a development dependency in Gemfile.
+  #
+  # Chef depends on ohai and chef-config. Ohai depends on chef-config. The
+  # version of chef-config that chef depends on is whatver version chef
+  # happens to be on master. This will need to be updated again once work on
+  # Chef 13 starts, otherwise builds will break.
+  s.add_dependency "chef-config", ">= 12.5.0.current.0", "< 13"
 
   s.add_dependency "rake", "~> 10.1"
   s.add_development_dependency "rspec-core", "~> 3.0"