[[chef-dev]] Chef PPA: 0.8.10-5 updates

[Joshua Timberman < >]

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Ohai Chefs!

Here's some notes about the latest package that is in the Launchpad  
PPA. This is still a temporary location for holding the packages until  
installation, migration and upgrade issues are ironed out.

If you are running 0.7.{10,16} from Karmic/Lucid or Opscode's current  
APT repos, you should make sure to pin your packages until you are  
ready to migrate your environment to the 0.8.x series. We're working  
on making sure the upgrade from 0.7.x->0.8.x via apt-get is as  
painless and smooth as possible. To learn more about pinning apt  
repositories, see the Apt Pinning documentation for Ubuntu and Debian.

* https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto
* http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences

The current version (0.8.10-5) in the PPA supports installing chef- 
solr separately from the chef-server. This isn't common but may be  
desirable for some environments. However at the moment the packaging  
doesn't install these in the "correct" order, the chef-server packages  
are installed and the daemons started, then the chef-solr package is  
installed and the daemon started. This can cause the server to not  
have the validation and webui certificates created in /etc/chef. To  
remedy, run /etc/chef/init.d/chef-server restart, or install chef-solr  
before installing the chef-server/chef-server-webui packages.

The packages handle the config files in /etc/chef using templates in / 
usr/share/chef*, and then processing them in the postinst. The files  
are handled like Debian package conffiles with the 'ucf' utility.  
Local user modifications of the files should be preserved on upgrade,  
or if the files exist on a new installation. Please report any  
problems with this.

Please note that the RubyGems package dependency for merb is not in  
the version of the merb package in lucid, so chef-server and chef- 
server-webui may fail to start with a noisy error about rubygems.  
Install the rubygems package and restart the daemons with the init  
scripts.

These issues will be resolved before the packages are migrated to  
their home on apt.opscode.com. Please test and report any other issues.

Thank you!

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Opscode, Inc
Joshua Timberman, Senior Solutions Engineer
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