[[chef-dev]] Re: Nightly Opscode Chef RPMs and some questions

[Sergio Rubio < >]

Hiya,

I've published the scripts I'm currently using to validate the build
in case anyone is interested:

https://github.com/rubiojr/chef-rpms-builder/tree/master/test

Rgds.


On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Sergio Rubio 
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 wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Today I'll be releasing nightly RPMs from Chef master in an attempt to
> do some kind of CI/testing of the RBEL RPM packages. This will help me
> to anticipate changes/breakage and release packages in a couple of
> days (maybe even the same day) after the official Opscode Chef
> release.
>
> I've got the build/CI system in place and now I'm writing some tests
> to validate the build.
>
> I have a question related to the build:
>
> RPMs are time-stamped when they're built (i.e.
> rubygem-chef-0.10.2-3.20110725_1130.el6.noarch.rpm) but I haven't
> found a good way of time stamping chef gems other than modifying
> lib/*/version.rb in every chef module on the fly.
>
> Is there a better way of doing this kind of stuff?
>
> I'm thinking of appending git short commit string to the VERSION
> string or something like that, so I can validate the build is up2date
> and the version string appears in Chef webui.
>
> Feedback is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>