[[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] Modifying the solaris2 Ohai plugin.

["Jason J. W. Williams" < >]

Yeah it is. I added the following to plugin/platform.rb:

puts "#{os}::platform"

It printed the following when running ohai:

solaris2::platform

Did that to make sure the 'require_plugin "{os}::platform"' line was loading 
the right plugin. 

-J

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On Jul 20, 2011, at 22:15, Benjamin Black 
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> is it even identifying the system as solaris2?  if not, it wont run that 
> plugin.
> 
> b
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> On Jul 20, 2011, at 9:11 PM, "Jason J. W. Williams" 
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>  wrote:
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>> Actually I have put puts in both plugins/platform.rb and 
>> plugins/solaris2/platform.rb. The latter (stock from opscode except for 
>> the puts statement) never gets hit. Which also explains why ohai doesn't 
>> traceback when run on OpenIndiana (it should in its current form because 
>> OI uses GNU uname which doesn't support the -X option the defacto solaris2 
>> plugin uses). 
>> 
>> -J
>> 
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>> On Jul 20, 2011, at 21:58, Daniel DeLeo 
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>>  wrote:
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>>> On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to modify the platform.rb module of the Ohai Solaris2
>>>> plugin in order to extend it to detect the various distributions of
>>>> Solaris (Solaris/Solaris Express, OpenIndiana, Nexenta, etc.).
>>>> However, if I modify the file:
>>>> 
>>>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ohai-0.6.4/lib/ohai/plugins/solaris2/platform.rb
>>>> 
>>>> ...my changes don't seem to take effect. I've even tried adding:
>>>> platform "test123"
>>>> 
>>>> However the platform still indicates "solaris2" when I run Ohai. This
>>>> appears to be from the line:
>>>> 
>>>> platform os unless attribute?("platform")
>>> I think you're getting confused by if/unless here:
>>> 
>>> platform os unless attribute?("platform")
>>> platform os if (not (attribute?("platform"))
>>> platform os if (not ( false ) )
>>> platform os if ( true )
>>> platform os
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ohai-0.6.4/lib/ohai/plugins/platform.rb,
>>>> because attribute?("platform") is evaluating to false. It appears that
>>>> Ohai isn't running platform.rb in the solaris2 plugin at all. Any
>>>> pointers are greatly appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> -J
>>> Not sure how else to help except for some general tips:
>>> 
>>> * don't be afraid of "printf debugging". Add puts statements everywhere.
>>> * for structured data, require 'pp' and then use pp for your printf 
>>> debugging
>>> * try it running ohai from the command line if you're not already
>>> 
>>> Good luck
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Dan DeLeo
>>>