[chef] Re: Re: Updating Chef on a Vagrant Basebox

[Torben Knerr < >]

Thanks, just tried it out and it works like a charm! :-)

For keeping the VBox Guestadditions in sync I found the
vagrant-vbguest vagrant plugin, which just worked as flawlessly:
https://github.com/dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest

Cheers,
Torben

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Chris Roberts
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 wrote:
> Actual repository:
>
> https://github.com/hw-cookbooks/omnibus_updater
>
>
> Hector Castro writes:
>
>> If you're using the Omnibus installer to install Chef initially, you
>> can add this to your run list:
>>
>>     https://github.com/cookbooks/hw-chef-omnibus_updater
>>
>> --
>> Hector
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Torben Knerr 
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>>  wrote:
>> > Hey Chefs,
>> >
>> > what's the best way to update the Chef version that is installed on a
>> > Vagrant Basebox?
>> >
>> > Right now I'm using an Ubuntu 12.04 basebox with Chef 10.12.0. Is
>> > there a recipe or so to update the chef client to a specific version?
>> > Or would it be better to do that with a :shell provisionier before the
>> > :chef_solo provision so that the latest version will be readily
>> > availabe upopn the first chef run?
>> >
>> > I wouldn't want to manage thousands of baseboxes for any comnbination
>> > of OS + Chef (+ VBox Guestadditions btw) version.
>> >
>> > Whats your appoach to this?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Torben