[chef-dev] Re: Redhat packages, was: Chef 0.10.10 Released

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Kanstantsin Shautsou 
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> It wiil be cool to have rpm's in one place to not spread ppl work imho, rpm
> packages are needed. Is 0.10.10 enough stable for production?

Ideally yes, but it isn't easy to create one repository that satisfies
everyone's needs.

RBEL provides Ruby 1.9 and Chef RPMs for FrameOS, an RHEL derivative.
You can usually use them on other RedHat distributions.

You can read about it's purpose here:
http://blog.frameos.org/2011/04/14/announcing-rbel-frameos-org/

The Aegisco repos worked at producing a stable Ruby 1.8 and gecode
packages for RHEL 5/6, FC13 and FC14.

http://blog.aegisco.com/index.php/2011/04/08/chef-0-10-pre-requisites-gecode-and-ruby-rpms/

We saw lots of Ruby segfaults on Redhat, so this was a bit of a feat.
You can catch up on the history in these tickets:

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2413
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2692

Bryan