Re: Please test Chef!

[Miguel Cabeça <cabeca@ist.utl.pt>]

Hi,


> We let the 0.6.0 release get a little long in the tooth, but it's
> nearly ready to roll.  We've got the new Web UI work, lots of bug
> fixes, and some performance patches.  Everything should be pretty
> smooth, but I would love to get a few "yep, nothing is totally hoarked
> for me" replies.  Mind testing out chef from opscode/master, and
> letting me know if things are working well for you?

Just installed from HEAD and had a few minor problems. I don't know if  
they're related to HEAD, my existig chef-server instalation or my new  
chef cookbooks that I adapted from bootstrap-0.5.7.tgz.

 * Had problems with merb-core. Yeld an error like "can't activate  
merb-core (= 1.0.9, runtime), already activated merb-core-1.0.11".  
Solved with

   gem uninstall merb-core -v=1.0.9
   gem install merb

* Had problems with chef_server.conf.erb from chef cookbook. There are  
some hardcoded paths in the template:

Alias /facebox /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-server-slice-0.5.7/ 
public/facebox
Alias /images /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-server-slice-0.5.7/ 
public/images
Alias /javascripts /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-server-slice-0.5.7/ 
public/javascripts
Alias /stylesheets /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-server-slice-0.5.7/ 
public/stylesheets
Alias /web-app-theme /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-server- 
slice-0.5.7/public/web-app-theme

In my case (Debian 5.0) I solved it by changing /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8  
to /var/lib/gems/1.8

Best Regards

Miguel Cabeça