[chef] Re: Re: EPEL repository (Redhat/Centos) breaks chef after 9/15

[Jonathan Matthews < >]

On 16 September 2010 21:34, Matthew Kent 
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 wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 01:42 -0500, Leinartas, Michael wrote:
>> This is half a warning and half a note to Matthew Kent who so
>> graciously packages up Chef for Redhat/CentOS systems.
>>
>> Today an update went out to EPEL to add rubygem-json 1.4.3.  For those
>> of us using the combination of EPEL and ELFF (mkent's repo)
>> repositories, this updates rubygem-json from 1.1.9 (from ELFF).
>>  Unfortunately, Chef and Ohai need versions less than or equal to
>> 1.4.2, so Rubygems will refuse to load the chef and ohai gems.
>
> Thanks! I'll certainly look at updating the packages shortly and likely
> just carry the working version of rubygem-json in ELFF.

Given a basic installation of EPEL+ELFF, will the presence of <1.4.3
in ELFF alongside the current 1.4.3 in EPEL not result in 1.4.3 being
used?

[I'm aware of the repo prioritisation and yum cli parameters that
could be used to help with this; I'm just interested in the
non-customised situation which might be reasonable/expected given a
pre-chef-install environment]

Jonathan
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