[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Thinking out loud

[Adam Jacob <adam@opscode.com>]

We're also working on native packages for more platforms - CentOS has
great native packages, Debian and Ubuntu are coming soon.

Adam

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Sander van Zoest<sander@vanzoest.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Adam Jacob <adam@opscode.com> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>> >    http://wiki.rubaidh.com/display/public/Bootstrapping+Chef
>> >
>> > I'm sure it's utterly bug ridden and flawed, but it does appear to do
>> > the
>> > right thing. And, for bonus points, it seems to be somewhat idempotent
>> > in
>> > that it doesn't cause harm if you run it again. Not that it carries on
>> > where
>> > it left off, but at least everything happens in a temporary directory,
>> > or
>> > through Chef.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>>
>> I dig it!  It's already pretty generic, but seeing something like this
>> for all the various platforms we support is a great idea.  Reminds me
>> of the old Gnome installer from back in the day.  Another variant on
>> this would be using Capistrano to do it remotely..
>
> I am using something similar, but a bit more basic as a rake task in the
> chef-repo.
>
> <http://gist.github.com/158298>
>
> --
> Sander van Zoest
>  sander@vanzoest.com
> San Diego, CA, USA
>  http://Sander.vanZoest.com/
>
>



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