[chef] Chef PPA: 0.8.10-5 updates


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  • Subject: [chef] Chef PPA: 0.8.10-5 updates
  • Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:45:26 -0600

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Ohai Chefs!

Here's some notes about the latest package that is in the Launchpad PPA. This is still a temporary location for holding the packages until installation, migration and upgrade issues are ironed out.

If you are running 0.7.{10,16} from Karmic/Lucid or Opscode's current APT repos, you should make sure to pin your packages until you are ready to migrate your environment to the 0.8.x series. We're working on making sure the upgrade from 0.7.x->0.8.x via apt-get is as painless and smooth as possible. To learn more about pinning apt repositories, see the Apt Pinning documentation for Ubuntu and Debian.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto
http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences

The current version (0.8.10-5) in the PPA supports installing chef- solr separately from the chef-server. This isn't common but may be desirable for some environments. However at the moment the packaging doesn't install these in the "correct" order, the chef-server packages are installed and the daemons started, then the chef-solr package is installed and the daemon started. This can cause the server to not have the validation and webui certificates created in /etc/chef. To remedy, run /etc/chef/init.d/chef-server restart, or install chef-solr before installing the chef-server/chef-server-webui packages.

The packages handle the config files in /etc/chef using templates in / usr/share/chef*, and then processing them in the postinst. The files are handled like Debian package conffiles with the 'ucf' utility. Local user modifications of the files should be preserved on upgrade, or if the files exist on a new installation. Please report any problems with this.

Please note that the RubyGems package dependency for merb is not in the version of the merb package in lucid, so chef-server and chef- server-webui may fail to start with a noisy error about rubygems. Install the rubygems package and restart the daemons with the init scripts.

These issues will be resolved before the packages are migrated to their home on apt.opscode.com. Please test and report any other issues.

Thank you!

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Opscode, Inc
Joshua Timberman, Senior Solutions Engineer
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