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

[Seth Chisamore < >]

And beware CentOS's env_reset in the default /etc/sudoers file. More here:
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/User+Environment+PATH+Sanity

Basically if you run "sudo chef-client" data will not be collected by Ohai 
correctly. This can easily be remedied by running "chef-client" as root...or 
having a custom "/etc/sudoers" file.

Seth

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On Friday, March 25, 2011 at 10:37 AM, John E. Vincent (lusis) wrote: 
> Michael,
> 
> There are tons of us who are using chef-client on CentOS5. The trick,
> which may not be documented cleanly in the wiki, is to use a custom
> bootstrap file. Don't rely on any packaged RPMs of chef-client. The
> server component is a bit more work.
> 
> One thing you'll find, however, is that most/many of the cookbooks are
> designed around ubuntu. You'll spend a good bit of time working to
> massage those into a RHEL/CentOS world view.
> 
> If you need any advice/tips, I'm usually on IRC during the day and can
> throw a few gists/github repos your way to help out.
> 
> Just look for 'lusis' in #chef.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Michael Stillwell 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > --
> > http://beebo.org
>