[chef] Re: Chef and Fedora 17

[Hector Castro < >]

I think you may just have to add a line like this in the client.rb
created by your bootstrap template:

    chef_client_path "/usr/local/bin/chef-client"

Try adding it before or after the config_content ERB:

    
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/chef/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/fedora13-gems.erb#L31-35

--
Hector



On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 21:26, Julian C. Dunn 
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 wrote:
> I'm trying to get Chef to fire up some Fedora 17 beta AMIs on EC2. The
> Fedora folks have upgraded to Ruby 1.9.3 in F17; in so doing, they've
> rearranged stuff so that gems installed via "gem install" are dumped
> in /usr/local now.
>
> Therefore, chef-client is in /usr/local/bin, and bootstrap dies at the
> end because it can't find /usr/bin/chef-client. In my "fedora17.erb",
> I've already tried patching knife/core/bootstrap_context.rb with the
> copy from git head, but that fails because I don't know how to set
> "@chef_config[:chef_client_path]" on the client.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> - Julian