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

[Scott Sanders < >]

I'm not sure all of the myriad of FreeBSD packaging systems should be supported in core Chef. Adding support for pkgng is logical since it will be the new default. However, even though I use portmaster, I'd prefer to keep that code in a portmaster cookbook.

I'm in favor of improving FreeBSD support in the core resources rather than adding OS specific resources like in the freebsd cookbook. Not sure if thats what you meant or not.

I'll gladly work to incorporate some of the monkey-patches we use to run Chef on a FreeBSD infra, but until the unit tests can be run on this platform I don't see those patches being accepted.

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On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Andrea Campi < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Dimitri Aivaliotis < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi Andrea,

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Andrea Campi
< " target="_blank"> > wrote:
>
> We also use something like that, it would be awesome to get that into the
> official freebsd cookbook.

I've been meaning to ask this for awhile: why is there a "freebsd"
cookbook?  Shouldn't Chef handle all FreeBSD-specific features as well
as it does for other supported operating systems?

Is there a reason not to try to get these kinds of things integrated into Chef?

None that I can see--all we need is someone to turn it into a patch to Chef, write unit tests and steward it through the process.

Any takers? :)