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

[Adam Jacob < >]

What does Ohai currently report the platform as?

You can get this to work by doing the following in /etc/chef/client.rb:

require 'chef/platform'
Chef::Platform.set(:platform => :WHAT_OHAI_REPORTS_FOR_PLATFORM, :resource => 
:service, :provider => Chef::Provider::Service::Redhat)
Chef::Platform.set(:platform => :WHAT_OHAI_REPORTS_FOR_PLATFORM, :resource => 
:cron, :provider => Chef::Provider::Cron)
Chef::Platform.set(:platform => :WHAT_OHAI_REPORTS_FOR_PLATFORM, :resource => 
:package, :provider => Chef::Provider::Package::Yum)
Chef::Platform.set(:platform => :WHAT_OHAI_REPORTS_FOR_PLATFORM, :resource => 
:package, :provider => Chef::Provider::Mdadm)

You could also do this in an attribute file or a cookbook library.

Best,
Adam
           
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On Oct 24, 2011, at 6:40 PM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

> 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