[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Install specific chef version using omnibus

[Jon-Erik Schneiderhan < >]

Thank you so much for the reply!  I was hoping there was a parameter I
could pass to specify the version - this is exactly what I was looking
for.

FYI - The bug I am seeing is detailed here
https://github.com/sensu/sensu-chef/issues/61 ;(Cannot find a resource
for assert_enclosing_directory_exists!)

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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 wrote:
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> On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Tim Smith wrote:
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> Bryan,
>
> Has Opscode put together a policy on retention of previous versions of
> Chef within the Omnibus installer? I am a bit hesitant to use a script to
> install a very critical part of my infrastructure without certainty that
> the version I need will be there in the future. Older versions of Chef 10
> are already missing from apt.opscode.com, but the use of debs allows
> anyone to archive off versions they rely on to a local repository. That
> goes away if you rely on a script to install Chef. While I'd like to
> always run the current release of Chef, parts of my infrastructure still
> run on Chef .9 and upgrading it tricky sometimes. Will there be a posted
> lifecycle for each release?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
> Just to be clear, the script is just a bit of magic to figure out which OS
> and CPU architecture you're on, the installation is done via whatever
> package manager is appropriate for your system.
>
> If you go to http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/ and click through the
> drop-down menus, you can get links to the actual packages, which you can
> archive as needed. If you want to automate this process for various OSes and
> architectures, you can grab the Location headers from the download URL (or
> just follow the redirect):
>
> http://www.opscode.com/chef/download?v=${version}&p=${platform}&pv=${platform_version}&m=${machine}
>
> As far as a retention policy, we haven't decided anything yet, but it's not
> our intention to force people to upgrade to versions they're not ready for.
> Since the Omnibus packages are a new feature, we decided not to backport old
> versions of Chef, but this doesn't imply that older versions will be purged.
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Daniel DeLeo
>