[chef] Re: Re: Re: chef-client gem install --pre doesn't find second level dependencies?

[Adam Jacob < >]

I believe you need to upgrade rubygems - can you tell me what happens
if you do a gem update --system?

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:07 PM, KC Braunschweig
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 wrote:
> 
 :~$
>  ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [x86_64-linux]
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> 
 :~$
>  gem -v
> 1.3.5
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> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Mark J. Reed 
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>  wrote:
>> That might make sense on RHEL <= 5, but Ubuntu 10.04 comes with a
>> pretty recent ruby - your choice of 1.8.7 or 1.9.2, IIRC.
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 19, 2011, Adam Jacob 
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>>  wrote:
>>> What version of ruby are you using, KC? I think this is actually
>>> caused by Rubygems no longer supporting particular versions of ruby.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:41 PM, KC Braunschweig
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>>>  wrote:
>>>> Am I missing something here? I've tried a few times now doing a clean
>>>> install of chef only for client install purposes on both RHEL and
>>>> ubuntu (10.04) using rubygems. It seems that it when installing a
>>>> prerelease version, you can't find second level dependencies or
>>>> something like that?
>>>>
>>>> Specifically you get things like:
>>>>
>>>> 
 :~$
>>>>  sudo gem install chef --pre -y
>>>> INFO:  `gem install -y` is now default and will be removed
>>>> INFO:  use --ignore-dependencies to install only the gems you list
>>>> ERROR:  Error installing chef:
>>>>        mixlib-authentication requires mixlib-log (>= 0, runtime)
>>>>
>>>> Clearly it resolved that chef needs mixlib-authentication but then it
>>>> couldn't find mixlib-log ?? But that is there and you can install it
>>>> explicitly, but only if you don't pass --pre
>>>>
>>>> 
 :~$
>>>>  sudo gem install mixlib-log --pre
>>>> ERROR:  could not find gem mixlib-log locally or in a repository
>>>>
>>>> 
 :~$
>>>>  sudo gem install mixlib-log
>>>> Successfully installed mixlib-log-1.3.0
>>>> 1 gem installed
>>>> Installing ri documentation for mixlib-log-1.3.0...
>>>> Installing RDoc documentation for mixlib-log-1.3.0...
>>>>
>>>> Maybe most folks upgraded from chef 0.9x so they didn't notice, but
>>>> this is irritating. Seems like I have to manually specify all the
>>>> dependencies that don't have a prerelease version first and then I can
>>>> install chef --pre? I know this will go away once all the chef bits
>>>> aren't in prerelease anymore, but if this is a gem weirdness, it'll
>>>> just keep happening. On the other hand, I might just be missing
>>>> something that would make this a non-issue.
>>>>
>>>> KC
>>>>
>>>
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