[chef] 0.7.16.2, another unofficial release, more backported bugfixes

[Bryan McLellan < >]

Well a couple people used the 0.7.16wt1 release, including Thom May
who had issues with the version number cooperating with gem.
Consequently I took out the ‘wt’ from the version, but this is still
an unofficial, unsupported release.

I pulled in the changes on Thom’s internal branch and grabbed some
more low hanging fruit. Don’t ask what methodology I used. It’s magic.

Grab the github branch, or the debs in my launchpad ppa. I’ve only
tested this on Ubuntu Karmic, as it goes.

http://github.com/btm/chef/tree/0.7.16.2
https://launchpad.net/~btm/+archive/ppa

Bryan

** Bug
* [CHEF-454] - Centos4 yum provider failure
* [CHEF-616] - rake install in chef-repo breaks if there is no git origin
* [CHEF-637] - duplicate copies of FileEdit: file_edit.rb & fileedit.rb
* [CHEF-639] - git resource fails on subsequent checkouts of the same 
repostiry
* [CHEF-642] - Services will always issue a WARN when status is not present
* [CHEF-684] - Should be possible for roles to be created without
anything in the run_list
* [CHEF-704] - Ruby block device does not have a default action
* [CHEF-722] - Link provider doesn’t understand paths requiring expansion
* [CHEF-843] - FileEdit permission issues

** Improvement
* [CHEF-598] - Upstart service provider
* [CHEF-617] - Install to chef repository on a remote machine
* [CHEF-709] - Support for backup up files in another directory than
the original file
* [CHEF-752] - No way to pass parameters to useradd provider

http://blog.loftninjas.org/2010/01/07/moar-unofficial-chef-07162/