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

[Dimitri Aivaliotis < >]

Hi Scott,

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Scott Sanders 
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> 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 agree that anything specific to a single port or set of ports should
be handled in a 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.

Yes it is.  I'm glad to see that there's interest here.

> 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.

Sounds good.  Let me know if you need any help with testing.


>>> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Andrea Campi
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>> 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? :)

You wouldn't want to do this yourself, Andrea? :)

- Dimitri