[chef] Chef 0.8.10 CentOS/RHEL 5 packages - testing

[Matthew Kent < >]

Chef 0.8.10 CentOS/RHEL 5 packages as provided by ELFF 
(http://elff.bravenet.com/) are ready for testing.

Installation instructions have been updated here

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installation+on+RHEL+and+CentOS+5+with+RPMs

These packages are derived from the 0.8.10 gems with 2 patches from

* http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-1087
* http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-1099

to make chef-solr happy. These are tracked in this branch

http://github.com/mdkent/chef/tree/0.8.10-el5

They also include rewritten init scripts, new configs and man pages 
borrowed from the Debian work by Mr Timberman. The updated packaging 
material and init scripts will be sent upstream shortly.

I've run through a few test installs (install chef server/client, using 
chef-repo, uploading cookbooks/roles etc) on fresh vm's without issue 
but am looking for further testing.

Please note I have not yet tested the upgrade path from the 0.7.16 
packages as time is a bit tight lately. If you want to try do let me 
know how it goes.

Unless I here of any issues I'll bump the new packages over to the
stable repository soon.
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