[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: segfault with CentOS 5.4/5.5 + ruby 1.8.7 + chef 0.10.0

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Sergio Rubio wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> >  On Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Sergio Rubio wrote:
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> > > If you guys feel like both approaches are valid, I can add a patch to 
> > > the Chef RPM to alleviate some of the pain the CentOS users are dealing 
> > > with.
> > > 
> > > Rgds.
> > Yeah, that would be great. I'm in favor of switching popen4 to shell_out 
> > if you can since the API is cleaner and it has built-in support for nice 
> > error messages when a command fails as well as live updating of output to 
> > a tty in some conditions.
> > 
> >  Feel free to hop on to #chef-hacking on freenode.net 
> > (http://freenode.net) (http://freenode.net) if you have development 
> > questions, or you can mail the chef-dev list as well.
> 
> Alright. I've modified the patch to use shell_out:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/1016667 ;
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> And the full yum.rb file in case anyone wants to test it:
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> https://gist.github.com/1017053 ;
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> (replaces 
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.0/lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb)
> 
> My plan is to do some more testing and If everything goes well, I'll push 
> an updated RPM soon after that. 
> 
> I've seen that there are a lot of changes coming to the yum provider in the 
> next release, so I guess submitting a pull request is not necessary, right?
> 
> Rgds.
> 
It would be best if you could create a ticket on our JIRA, 
tickets.opscode.com Let me know the ticket number and I'll fast track it for 
this release since this is a blocking issue for many of you.


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Dan DeLeo 
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