[chef] Re: question about merb ["~> 1.1.0"]

[Matthew Kent < >]

On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 14:03 -0400, Sean OMeara wrote:
> In an attempt to future proof the RHEL packages, I tried building
> existing ELFF spec against fc12.
> 
> The patching phase failed for fuzz level reasons.
> While attempting to fix it, I noticed the patch was relaxing the merb
> requirement to [ => 0 ], while the gemspec specifies [ ~> 1.1.0 ]
> 

Though I'm not sure why the strict requirement was added I removed it as
I haven't had time to package up the latest merb. The Debian packages
use 1.0.15 so I figured it wouldn't be an issue.

> RHEL6 will be shipping with merb 1.0.15.
> 
> My question is: Does chef currently use merb 1.1.0 specific features?
> 
> If so, that would explain a lot of strange things I've been seeing
> running 0.9.8.
> 

What kind of issues are you seeing?

> Either way, I'll be making an updated merb rpm set.
> 

If you're interested in improving these and helping me out with some of
the workload it might make sense to join the Fedora package maintainers

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers

if you get approved I can provide access to help maintain the merb
packages and other Chef dependencies.

-- 
Matthew Kent \ SA \ bravenet.com