Installation issues wrt chef-solo

[Ian Kallen <spidaman.list@gmail.com>]

Still learning my way around chef (and git and runit...), I've got 
CentOS 5.3 x86_64 running under vmware fusion. I'm running through an 
install  that uses the "Installation on CentOS 5.2 with gems" scenario 
but where it hands off to the "Installation" wiki, it's bombing. On 
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installation it says to do this

$ sudo chef-solo -r 
http://wiki.opscode.com/download/attachments/1179839/chef-server-install-solo-0.5.2.tar.gz

but that fails out 'cause the runit, stompserver etc doesn't get set 
up.  This is what I did manually to get all of the services started up 
(requires adding http://rubyworks.rubyforge.org/redhat/$releasever/RPMS/ 
to yum):

yum install -y libicu-devel runit
wget 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/couchdb-0.8.1-4.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i couchdb-0.8.1-4.el5.x86_64.rpm
wget 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/js-1.70-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i js-1.70-3.el5.x86_64.rpm

wget 
http://wiki.opscode.com/download/attachments/1179839/chef-server-install-solo-0.5.2.tar.gz
mkdir /var/tmp/chef-server-install-solo-0.5.2
tar xzvf chef-server-install-solo-0.5.2.tar.gz -C 
/var/tmp/chef-server-install-solo-0.5.2

cd /var/tmp/chef-server-install-solo-0.5.2/cookbooks/chef/template/default/
for i in stompserver chef-indexer chefserver
do
 mkdir -p /var/service/$i/log/main
 cp sv-$i-log-run.erb /var/server/$i/log/run
 chmod 755 /var/server/$i/log/run
 cp sv-$i-run.erb /var/server/$i/run
 chmod 755 /var/$i/$i/run
done

My target is to put configuration of some CentOS EC2 instances under 
chef management. I'm fine with my manual setup to go from playing in 
vmware to doing it for real on EC2 but if there's something I'm missing 
on the wiki that's cool, please just let me know (I've been suspecting I 
need to get vision correction anyway :)
thanks,
-Ian