[chef] Re: Passing responses back to Chef?

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Aug 6, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Brad Knowles 
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> [2013-08-06T15:03:18-05:00] DEBUG: aptitude show mysql-server=5.1 | grep 
> '^Version: ' | sed 's/^Version: //' | grep "^5.1"
> [2013-08-06T15:03:19-05:00] DEBUG: 5.1.70-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

As it turns out, I appear to be trying to work around what seems to be a bug 
in the apt provider for chef-client, related to CHEF-2483.

The issue here is that when you select "5.1" as the version that you ask to 
have installed, the apt provider should find and install version 
"5.1.70-0ubuntu0.10.04.1" for you.  However, if you ask for "5.1.70", that 
mechanism somehow breaks down and fails -- if you don't give it just 
"major.minor" you instead have to give it the complete version string, and 
the middle ground of "major.minor.patch" doesn't work.

I'll work this up as a new ticket, but in the meanwhile I'm trying to figure 
out how I can bypass this problem.


Of course, we're going to have a large number of different major.minor.patch 
versions that we might want to install, so we're going to have to run our own 
apt repo to hold them all.  We're okay with that, so long as the apt provider 
works correctly.

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