[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Problem While Installing Linux Package with Chef

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Monday, October 24, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Joshua Timberman wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> The root of the problem is that the tool Chef uses to detect
> information about the node it is running on, Ohai, does not have a
> plugin to properly detect Oracle Linux. This will affect four
> resources:
> 
> cron
> mdadm
> package
> service
> 
> When you have recipes that use any of these recipes, you'll probably
> need to add the "provider" parameter to these resources so they work
> on Oracle Linux.
> 
> We'd like to correct the problem, though. Please open a ticket at
> tickets.opscode.com (http://tickets.opscode.com) in the OHAI project to add 
> support for Oracle
> Linux. If there's an /etc/redhat-release, please include its contents
> in the ticket.
Once ohai knows what Oracle Linux is, Chef will need to be updated to use the 
yum package provider for package resources (&etc.), so please also create a 
ticket in the CHEF project and reference the Ohai ticket. (hint: if you write 
a ticket number like OHAI-123 in the description, it will auto-link).

Thanks,

-- 
Dan DeLeo