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

[Dimitri Aivaliotis < >]

Hi Scott,

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Scott Sanders 
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 wrote:
>
> The ruby build step for omnibus requires a custom patch I added to disable
> libexecinfo, since the autoconf scripts for libexecinfo hardcode the LDFLAGS
> to point to /usr/local instead of the desired /opt/chef prefix.

I do realize this is kind of an uphill battle, but does Omnibus _have_
to install into /opt/chef?  The BSD's don't have /opt.  This is
evident in tickets like CHEF-3761.


> Follow along on the freebsd branches of the following forks:
>
> https://github.com/jssjr/bento
> https://github.com/jssjr/omnibus-ruby
> https://github.com/jssjr/omnibus-chef
> https://github.com/jssjr/omnibus-software

Thanks for your work on these forks!

I was able to build Omnibus with these caveats, which have only to do
with Omnibus itself, and not your "freebsd" branches in particular:

1) You have to pre-create the /opt/chef directory as root and then
'chown' to your build user (nobody's building as root, right?).  This
could be solved by having a separate install_dir (place to be
installed into during build) and prefix_dir (place to be installed
into after extracting the archive).


2) omnibus-chef should ship with a safe omnibus.rb, maybe something
like the following:

cat >omnibus.rb<<EOF
Omnibus.configure do |o|
  o.use_s3_caching = false
  o.cache_dir = "/home/builder/cache"
  o.source_dir = "/home/builder/src"
  o.build_dir = "/home/builder/build"
  o.package_dir = "/home/builder/pkg"
end
EOF

Again to support building as a non-root user.


3) On install, makeself.sh seems to require bash, otherwise you get
the following error:

eval: ./makeselfinst: not found

and the install will fail.



@Bryan: should I open tickets for these, or are these issues that have
been seen before, decided upon, and would be closed with "Won't Fix"?


> I'm very excited to see some interest in Chef on FreeBSD!

So am I. :)


- Dimitri