[chef] Re: Re: looks_like_ec2? fallback gist

[Hedge Hog < >]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Bryan McLellan 
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> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Hedge Hog 
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>> Ohai `looks_like_ec2?` seems to be on the blink in version 0.6.10 on a
>> tiny ec2 instance (if the detail helps/matters it was launched via a
>> stack template).
>>
>> Below is the gist I've been resorting to that has proved robust in
>> these situations (0.6.4 was another occasion):
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/1873800
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> I've been poking around that code as I've been discussing OHAI-310
> [1]. How is it broken?

looks_like_ec2? returns false/nil when it should return true.

Given the moving target(s) your trying to hit I wonder if it isn't
better to just say that people have to target a cloud VM by setting
some attribute - it is not clear what that convention should be.

looks_like_ec? whould then become looks_cloudy?, check for that
attribute(s) and compose what information it can for that provider?

This would be quite a change in behavior, but maybe could be
implemented so that the attribute only need be set once, anywhere?

> What happens?

As above.  It don't see any exception.

> Is there a bug for the issue
> you're experiencing?

Possibly, apologies for this but I don't really hunt in opscode's bug
database too much anymore - from memory I do have an account (for a
different role) I could use.  Simple reason is that, if you are
serious about participating in squashing a bug, it is too frustrating
to encounter this sort of thing[0], ironic that there is an example of
this in the bug you cite.

For the moment I find it suffices to google for people publishing
gists/workarounds - just like this :)

[0]: 
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/OHAI-310?focusedCommentId=21505&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-21505

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> Bryan
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> [1] http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/OHAI-310



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