[chef-dev] Re: [chef] build omnibus-chef in dedicated dir

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:

> Hello. As i know omnibus-chef have hardcoded paths like /opt/chef/xxx
> that not very good.

Can you explain why it’s not good?
  
> If i send patches for omnibus, omnibus-chef, omnibus-software to get
> abilit to run something like:
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> cd omnibus-chef
> BUNDLE_PATH=.bundle bundle install --without development
> BUNDLE_PATH=.bundle bundle exec omnibus build chef -l debug -o
> base_dir:./local dest_dir:./local/output

You say below that you have a different distro than the ones we already 
support. Would it make more sense to always build the packages in this 
location on your platform?
  
>  
> and get in local/output fully working chef that can be dropped to
> /opt/ and run without problems, does this acceptable by upstream?

This will be really difficult to do. Paths to shared libraries get baked in 
to the binaries at compile time.
  
> Also if user does not override dest_dir its by fault have value / that
> mean that current behaviour works fine.
> What do you think?
> P.S. I'm need this to properly create archive with chef for my distro.

What distro?
  
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