[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Trying to build omnibus installer on FreeBSD

Am Mon, 4 Feb 2013 09:57:38 -0500
schrieb Pete Cheslock 
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> I'll keep banging away at this libedit thing and see if I can make any
> progress.  Perhaps Sean might know more since he did some recent work
> on smartos.
> 


We're also not through this.
The main problem is that the thing tries to build all the stuff with
make -j2, which breaks on FreeBSD for some software.
IIRC, for libedit you have to use one of the patches provided by
the port (/usr/ports/devel/libedit)

I don't remember what stuck next, but from looking at it, it's
chock-full of linux-isms. And there does not seem to be a global switch
to set certain build-options - e.g. disable -j2 globally.

I really like the idea of having chef outside the package-management
and I do like the idea of having one exactly identical version of chef
on all of our platforms - but currently, the omnibus-installer leaves a
lot to be desired....
My coworker wanted to upload the stuff we changed to a git repository,
but he's been busy with other work.