[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: FreeBSD Omnibus Support

[Dimitri Aivaliotis < >]

Hi Scott,

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Scott Sanders 
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> Excellent patch, I'm definitely borrowing that after we update our packaging
> server! We do something very similar to enable package management through
> portmaster. The monkey patches live in our freebsd cookbook's libraries
> directory so the core chef code doesn't need modification. I expect this is
> a common pattern given the variety of package managers for FreeBSD.

It's not my patch, but I rather like it as well.  I think the original
author also uses it as a library file in a cookbook.

> FWIW, we also have monkey patches as well that switch service commands over
> to using onestart, onestop, etc instead of start, stop so that commands
> don't fail before the service is enabled in rc.conf.

That's not a bad idea.  The one* variants should probably be the
default action for :start and :stop, whereas editing rc.conf and using
"start/stop" should be the action for :enable and :disable.  Any
interest in getting that change into Chef itself?

- Dimitri