[chef] Re: the node[:platform?] attribute in chef 10.12.0

[Mike < >]

I suspect this may be the culprit.
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1010

Haven't reproduced it locally in a test environment, but I know that
I've seen that show un on a bunch of my nodes.

-M

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Bryan Berry 
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 wrote:
> can any chef devs tell me what the purpose is of the node[:platform?]
> attribute is?
>
> I have just started seeing it after upgrading from 0.10.8 to 10.12.0. The
> strange part is that my RHEL 6.2 boxes report "ubuntu" for that value if I
> have the PHP cookbook in my
> run_list https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/php . w/out the PHP cookbook
> in the run_list, platform? holds the array [ "redhat", "fedora", "centos" ]
>
> Bizarre!
>
> I have dug into the PHP cookbook and its dependencies and cannot find any
> statement that equates to  `node[:platform?] = "ubuntu" `, whether for the
> default, normal, or override attributes.
>
> I also have dug into the chef code and haven't found the platform? method
> that this attribute corresponds to.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this?