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

[Eric-Olivier Lamey < >]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Michael Stillwell 
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> What's the status of chef on CentOS/RedHat?  We've currently installed
> chef as described at
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> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installation+on+RHEL+and+CentOS+5+with+RPMs
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> 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

  Hi Michael,

  As others have said, chef is working very nicely on CentOS 5, both as a
  server and as a client.

  I have built my own RPMs of chef 0.9.14, using a bunch of files from
  ELFF (thanks guys!). They are available for CentOS 5 i386 and x86_64
  here: http://pakk.96b.it/repositories/el5/
  My packages are not really meant to be integrated with RedHat/CentOS'
  default ruby though, as I am also packaging ruby 1.9 (with a recent GC
  patch).

  Installation is not well (err... at all) documented, but:
  # rpm -ivh http://pakk.96b.it/repositories/el5/<arch>/pakk-release.rpm
  # yum install chef-client (or chef-server)
  should work, where arch is either i386 or x86_64.
  Please note that you need to configure EPEL's repositories before.

  I am the only user of those packages (I have not yet publicly announced
  the repository), and they work for me, but if anyone has any problem
  with them, I'd be glad to help. Patches are even more welcomed, as
  the SPEC files are published here: https://github.com/eolamey/pakk