[chef] Re: Deploying server under CentOS

[Paul Choi < >]

It was a bit painful but I built my own set of RPMs for CentOS 4 (we run 
a mixed environment of CentOS 4 and CentOS 5), for Chef 0.8.16.
I don't have the bandwidth to test 0.9 at this point.

gem2rpm is your friend (assuming you have rpmbuild environment set up):
  gem install gem2rpm

  gem fetch shadow
  gem2rpm shadow-1.1.gem > SPECS/rubygem-shadow.spec
  rpmbuild -ba SPECS/rubygem-shadow.spec

You can build all of Chef's ruby gem dependencies that way.
Then you can fetch ELFF's latest rubygem-chef SRPM from 
http://download.elff.bravenet.com/5/SRPMS/. You'd need to edit the spec 
file a bit to make it work, but it can be done.

If and when I have time to test 0.9 and deploy across my org, I'll 
contribute.

-Paul


On 7/8/10 2:24 PM, Albert Llop wrote:
> Hi there!
> I've been battling today trying to update my chef server to the latest 
> version (0.9.6) but have been a complete disaster. We run everything 
> under centos 5.3 so far, and I haven't found much support in that 
> area, since most of the documentation / bootstrapping cookbooks 
> mention mostly only ubuntu support. What would you suggest to be the 
> best course of action? I have a very small environment of only 5 
> clients, preparing for a bigger future, so scrapping everything can be 
> considered. Would it be worth it to create a new chef server on an 
> ubuntu based system, keep battling, or just wait for the rpm's to be 
> updated?
>
> Is there anyone else hosting the server in a centos that can share his 
> experience?
> --
> { :name => "Albert Llop" }