[chef] chef, CentOS/RedHat, and rubygem-rest-client updates

[Michael Stillwell < >]

What's the status of chef on CentOS/RedHat?  We've currently installed
chef as described at

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

but I get the feeling that chef isn't very well supported on
CentOS/RedHat.  For example, the latest RPM packaged version is 0.9.8,
which is quite old, and isn't packaged by Opscode anyway.  (Unlike the
Debian/Ubuntu packages.)  One of its dependencies is
rubygem-rest-client (from EPEL), and this was updated to version 1.6.1
in the last day or so, which breaks chef-client 0.9.8:

# chef-client
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:827:in
`report_activate_error': RubyGem version error: rest-client(1.6.1 not
>= 1.0.4, <= 1.5.1) (Gem::LoadError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:261:in `activate'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:296:in `activate'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:295:in `each'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:295:in `activate'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:68:in `gem'
        from /usr/bin/chef-client:18

Will chef + CentOS be a viable combination in the future, or should I
look to moving to a different distribution?  (Or figure out how to
install/package chef myself, which might be about as much work...)





Cheers,
Michael

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