[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: Determining if running omnibus or system ruby

[Mike < >]

How many paths have been used?
I came across this segment today:
https://github.com/heavywater/chef-chef_gem/blob/master/libraries/chef_gem.rb#L43-60

Can Opscode choose something and stick with it for a while? :)

Also, everyone go upvote and fix
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3365 - I don't know the
upfactor process.

-M

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Christopher Brown 
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> I'd advise against that because we reserve the right to change those
> paths at some point and wouldn't want reusable content getting broken
> by install specifics.
> -C
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> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Juanje Ojeda Croissier
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>> Well, Ohai has information about where is Chef installed.
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>> You could do something like this:
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>> node['chef_packages']['chef']['chef_root'] =~ /embedded/
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>> It's not a nice standard method, but I guess there is not (yet).
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>> Good luck :-)
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>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Mike 
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>>> Agreed. But until there is One True Way to install things, then there
>>> will be divergence.
>>> Case and point, value_for_platform and package names across distros.
>>>
>>> It would be nice to have this method available, so thanks for filing the 
>>> ticket.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Bryan McLellan 
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>>>  wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Mike 
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>>>>  wrote:
>>>>> Does that make sense?
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>>>> Yeah, I'm just sad that we have to write cookbooks that have to
>>>> diverge on Omnibus.
>>>>
>>>> Filed http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3365 to track the upfactor.
>>>>
>>>> Bryan
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>> --
>> Juanje
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>> http://about.me/juanje
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