[chef] Re: Re: chef_gem installing with wrong rubygems

[Patrick Debois < >]

Maybe on a related note:

I know you can pass the -- -v <chef-version> , but how do version the 
omnibus version?
Maybe something changed there ?

On 07/02/13 11:30, Patrick Debois wrote:
> I seeing a similar behavior - Also to the other post on chef_gem with 
> the minitest-handler
>
> At first run, this fails complaining it can't install the chef_gem.
> On second run this works correctly.
>
> On 06/02/13 23:08, 
>
>  
>  wrote:
> > I just upgraded from running 0.10.8 with ruby 1.8.7 installed on the 
> > system to
> > the omnibus 10.18.2. I have a recipe running chef_gem to install a 
> > gem and chef
> > can see that the gem is not in the omnibus rubygems, so it installs 
> > it. But it
> > installs it into the system rubygems. Even if I run chef-client again 
> > it sees
> > the gem is not in omnibus and then installs it in the system. If I 
> > remove
> > /usr/bin/gem then chef will install it inside omnibus. I thought 
> > chef_gem was
> > supposed to ignore /usr/bin/gem. Has anyone seen this, or know how to 
> > work
> > around it, or know what I may be doing wrong?
> >
> > I'm running Centos 5.4 as root with
> > PATH=/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin 
> >
> >
> > [root]# gem list netaddr
> >
> > *** LOCAL GEMS ***
> >
> >
> > [root]# /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem list netaddr
> >
> > *** LOCAL GEMS ***
> >
> >
> > [root]# chef-client -l debug
> > ...
> > [2013-02-06T21:01:41+00:00] INFO: Processing chef_gem[netaddr] action 
> > install
> > (cookbook::recipe line 2)
> > [2013-02-06T21:01:41+00:00] DEBUG: chef_gem[netaddr] detected omnibus
> > installation in /opt/chef/embedded/bin
> > [2013-02-06T21:01:41+00:00] DEBUG: chef_gem[netaddr] using gem from 
> > running
> > ruby environment
> > [2013-02-06T21:01:41+00:00] DEBUG: chef_gem[netaddr] no installed 
> > version found
> > for netaddr (>= 0)
> > [2013-02-06T21:01:43+00:00] DEBUG:  found gem netaddr version 1.5.0 for
> > platform ruby from http://rubygems.org/
> > Successfully installed netaddr-1.5.0
> > 1 gem installed
> > ...
> > [root]# gem list netaddr
> >
> > *** LOCAL GEMS ***
> >
> > netaddr (1.5.0)
> > [root]# /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem list netaddr
> >
> > *** LOCAL GEMS ***
> >
> >
> > [root]#
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan