[chef-dev] Pidora platform ...

[Alan Milligan < >]

I know there have been a number of discussions about platforms, platform 
families and 'flavours' over the last couple of months. I'm not sure 
anything much has been resolved yet though.

To add a little more petrolium product to the discussion, I hacked up 
BastionLinux on Raspberry Pi the other day:
http://au.last-bastion.net/news/bastionlinxux-pi

The most excellent thing is I only had to build a couple of gems to get 
our chef-client stack running (10.28.0).  But a vanilla Pidora release 
has following:

platform:          pidora
platform_family:   pidora
platform_version:  3.6.11

It's rather a PITA hacking chef/platforms.rb to get through a run-list 
(and it seems raspberian is the only Pi-based distro supported out of 
the box).

Note also, in this rather unfortunate case, the Platform family *should* 
be fedora, and worse, the platform_version should be '18' (it's a remix 
of Fedora 18) - instead the Pidora crew elected to go with kernel version.

Is there any plan perhaps to use/have an ohai hint even to readily sort 
out anomalies like this?

Alan