[chef] Re: Re: Re: Advice sought on Chef-ifying heterogeneous mess of Unices

[Phil Dibowitz < >]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:19:09PM -0400, Christopher DeMarco wrote:
> "Bite the bullet" he sez.  Humph.  I was hoping to avoid hard work XD
> 
> Seriously though, I was just mulling over a different project and wondered
> if it'd be a good Trojan Horse:
> 
> I have to install a UPS agent on every system, with a hard deadline of a
> utility cut in mid-October.  Last time I had a situation like this, I
> heavily hacked my backup agent's installer to detect/handle every variant in
> my mutant horde.
> 
> Any reason not to use that project as my Chef beachhead?

Seems like as good of a place to start as any!

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