[chef] Re: RE: CHEF-Client installation

[Kimball Johnson < >]

I think you need to wait for opscode to fix the bug, or backport
libjson from their source repository and that will solve your issues.

I'm sure it's the same issue, I just don't get the strangeness with
puppet first.

It will work with a backported libjson, as I have lenny servers with
puppet and chef installed having created the backport.

On 31 March 2011 16:47, WEINHAPL Andreas
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> Mhm, youre right with the dependencies :) I tested it in the meantime (last 
> hope aso .. you know )
>
> The problem is that we need to install chef on the server where puppet  was 
> running before, because this are our production servers and can't be 
> install from the scratch :(
>
> So do you know a workaround or could you reproduce it?!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kimball Johnson 
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> Sent: Donnerstag, 31. März 2011 17:45
> To: WEINHAPL Andreas
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>  Bryan McLellan
> Subject: Re: [chef] RE: CHEF-Client installation
>
> That is strange as I couldn't install chef on a freshly installed
> lenny at all without creating a backport of libjson-ruby1.8, whihc is
> the dependency error you see in the final stage.
>
> You are right, you should not change the dependencies file, it
> wouldn't help anyway, each package holds it's own dependencies, the
> file is to help apt resolve them automatically
>
> On 31 March 2011 16:36, WEINHAPL Andreas
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>  wrote:
>> Mhm that seems to be a other problem which look like mine. The weird thing 
>> is that I'm able to install chef if the sever doesn't work with puppet 
>> before. So I think "puppet" will write something to a file which will be 
>> checked by apt-get.
>>
>> I made a test and I can reproduce it with no problems, just set up a 
>> debian server (debian-507-amd64-netinst.iso)
>>        * Install chef (apt-get install chef) -> TO be sure that it will 
>> work
>>        * Uninstall it with (apt-get --purge remove chef)
>>        * Autoremove all automatic installed packages "apt-get --purge 
>> autoremove"
>>        * Install "puppet" -> apt-get install puppet
>>        * Remove puppet after installed -> apt-get --purge remove puppet
>>        * apt-get --purge autoremove
>>        * clean up everything -> apt-get clean
>>        * and install chef again -> apt-get install chef
>>
>> The result is that you will run into dependency errors:
>>         * Depends: libjson-ruby1.8 (>= 1.4.6) but it is not going to be 
>> installed
>>       * Depends: ohai (>= 0.5.8) but it is not going to be installed
>>       * Depends: libchef-ruby1.8 (= 0.9.14+dfsg-1) but it is not going to 
>> be installed
>>
>> I found out that the dependencies are stored at /var/lib/apt/lists/ 
>> ftp.at.debian.org_debian_dists_lenny_main_binary-i386_Packages
>>
>> But I don't think that it will be good to edit this file :)
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