[chef-dev] Re: Re: Pidora platform ...

[Alan Milligan < >]

Hi Julian,

Yes, I do appreciate that /etc/*-release is used to discover this.  I'm 
simply concerned about (i) proliferation of distributions; (ii) when 
those distro vendors' get it wrong ...

I'm not entirely sure Pidora is abandonware - but is is a little 
unloved.  The issue with Fedora/ARM is that nobody's cutting images - 
it's very much DIY if you can put together a sufficient kickstart file.  
Presently, I'm being a little lazy and running with Pidora - but 
immediately bootstrapping Chef onto it and completely reconstituting it 
against my own ARM repo ;)

Alan

On 11/28/2013 05:02 PM, Julian C. Dunn wrote:
> I discovered that this is because they hacked up /etc/fedora-release
> with their own stuff instead of just leaving it as-is. On Fedora, ohai
> reads this file to determine node['platform'] and
> node['platform_version'].
>
> I hacked it back to what Fedora 18 looks like and everything is fine.
>
> I'm not sure if Pidora is abandonware now, in light of Fedora
> supporting ARM? There hasn't been a new Pidora release for F19, and
> F20 is almost out, so I'm wondering what's happening with the project.
>
> - Julian
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Alan Milligan
> <
>  >
>  wrote:
> > 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