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

[Joshua Timberman < >]

I left a comment on that ticket. It should be fixed in the current
master, which will be released soon.

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Mike 
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 wrote:
> 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?



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