[chef] Re: Chef 11.0.0.beta.1 is out, now with Omnibus!

[Steffen Gebert < >]

Sorry, I didn't read carefully enough.. the link posted was to
chef-client, which is available for Debian.

When can we expect a chef-server package for Debian? Or should the
Ubuntu packages also work?

Thanks
Steffen

On 1/29/13 3:41 PM, Steffen Gebert wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> thanks for the release!
> 
> It looks like Debian packages are finally available :-)
> 
> This information is missing in the linked wiki page.
> 
> Thanks
> Steffen
> 
> On 1/29/13 3:34 AM, Bryan McLellan wrote:
>> Hi Chefs,
>>
>> We've released Chef 11.0.0.beta.1 to Rubygems and in Omnibus package form.
>>
>> ### Changes
>> The following issues have been fixed since the beta 0:
>>
>> * Modified the behavior of the new attributes system to overwrite Arrays 
>> when merging between precedence levels. This matches the Chef 10.x 
>> behavior.
>> * Fixed a bug where calling `puts` on a attribute component would raise a 
>> TypeError.
>> * Fixed an issue managing the 32 bit registry on 64 bit Windows 2003 
>> systems.
>> * Corresponding test fixes.
>> * Added a flag to check for admin privileges when running chef-client on 
>> Windows
>> * Bug fixes to chef_fs, used in the knife-essentials utilities like knife 
>> diff
>> * Added missing requires for some deprecated DSL mixins
>> * Fixed a bug in log messages under Windows
>> * Fixed another windows bug where cookbook_file wouldn't inherit 
>> permissions from a parent object
>>
>> ### Installing
>>
>> #### With Omnibus, via install.sh:
>>
>> curl:
>>
>>     curl -L "https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh" ;| sudo bash -s -- -v 
>> 11.0.0.beta.1
>>
>> wget:
>>
>>     wget -qO- "https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh" ;| sudo bash -s -- 
>> -v 11.0.0.beta.1
>>
>> #### With Omnibus via package download:
>>
>> Omnibus packages are served via a webservice called Omnitruck that 
>> redirects you to the appropriate package. Normally you don't need to know 
>> any specificsthing about Omnitruck, but we haven't updated the install.sh 
>> script with a flag for grabbing a pre-release yet and maybe you're just 
>> interested anyway. If you are, an explanation of the URL parameters that 
>> allows you to grab whatever versions you want is available on the wiki:
>>
>> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+11+Server+Preview
>>
>> The wiki page is focused on the chef-server case but is valid for 
>> chef-client as well. For example, this will fetch the package on Ubuntu 
>> 10.04:
>>
>>    wget -O /tmp/chef_11.0.0.beta.1_amd64.deb 
>> 'https://www.opscode.com/chef/download?v=11.0.0.beta.1&p=ubuntu&pv=10.04&m=x86_64'
>>
>> ### Reporting Problems
>>
>> If you find any issues using the beta, please report them here and file 
>> bug reports on tickets.opscode.com.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> ---
>> Bryan McLellan | opscode | technical program manager, open source
>> (c) 206.607.7108 | (t) @btmspox | (b) http://blog.loftninjas.org
>>
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