[chef] Re: [RFC] CHEF-50 - Portage use flags & keywords

[Edward Muller < >]

+1 on #2 (managing /etc/portage/package.(use|keywords)

setting the USE variables when emerging a package is considered "temporary".

If for any reason the package(s) installed via this method get
re-emerged outside of chef (like by a sysadmin troubleshooting a
problem) the use flags will be lost (unless the sysadmin knows the
flags to tell emerge, which is doubtful).

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Kenneth Kalmer 
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 wrote:
> Dear chefs
> I've updated CHEF-50 with some information, pasted in this email as well. I
> would like to solicit some feedback on how we can get this issue resolved.
> Best
>
> Currently Chef::Resource::Package doesn't give us the ability to pass
> arbitrary attributes that can be used by Chef::Provider::Package::Portage to
> manipulate the USE & KEYWORDS environment variables.
> I can think of three possible routes to follow here, outlined below:
> The first is to expand Chef::Resource::Package to accept a hash of
> environment variables that can be passed to the underlying package
> providers. This is generic enough, and could be used by other providers as
> well:
>     package "net-dns/pdns" do
>       action :install
>       environment "USE" => "mysql"
>     end
> The above can then be interpreted by the Portage provider and executed as
> "USE=mysql emerge net-dns/pdns"
> The second could be to implement two new providers specifically for Gentoo,
> one for manipulating use flags and the other for manipulating keywords (both
> through the corresponding /etc/portage/package.{use|keywords} files
>     use "net-dns/pdns" do
>       flags "mysql"
>     end
>     keywords "dev-db/couchdb" do
>       accept "~x86"
>     end
> The last, and least desirable option would be to expand
> Chef::Resource::Package to accept 'use' and 'keywords' as attributes, but
> that blows it open to expansion from every child provider.
> --
> Kenneth Kalmer
> 
 
> http://opensourcery.co.za
> @kennethkalmer
>



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