[chef] Re: Re: Re: Error in mysql cookbook

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

Fedora has made numerous policy decisions over the past few years to make 
them highly incompatible with RHEL-ish OSes. As a shining topical example, 
Fedora no longer ships "real" MySQL, they ship MariaDB instead.

--Noah

On Mar 5, 2014, at 12:05 AM, Cassiano Leal 
<
 >
 wrote:

> I'm interested in understanding why is Fedora not a part of the 'rhel' os 
> family.
> 
> On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 8:00, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> 
>> As I said on IRC, the issue is just that the code in the OpenStack recipe 
>> only has conditions for 'debian' and 'rhel' families. This means on Fedora 
>> that variable ends up being nil, which when interpolated as a string is ''.
>> 
>> --Noah
>> 
>> On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:53 PM, Peeyush Gupta 
>> <
 >
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I am trying to deploy openstack using openstack-chef-repo 
>>> (https://github.com/stackforge/openstack-chef-repo). I am using fedora 19 
>>> and here is the error I am getting:
>>> 
>>> ================================================================================
>>> Recipe Compile Error in 
>>> /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/openstack-ops-database/recipes/server.rb
>>> ================================================================================
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ArgumentError
>>> -------------
>>> Bad string format template[], you must have a string like 
>>> resource_type[name]!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cookbook Trace:
>>> ---------------
>>> /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/openstack-ops-database/recipes/mysql-server.rb:50:in
>>>  `from_file'
>>> /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/openstack-ops-database/recipes/server.rb:22:in 
>>> `from_file'
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Relevant File Content:
>>> ----------------------
>>> /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/openstack-ops-database/recipes/mysql-server.rb:
>>> 
>>> 43: case node['platform_family']
>>> 44: when 'debian'
>>> 45: mycnf_template = '/etc/mysql/my.cnf'
>>> 46: when 'rhel'
>>> 47: mycnf_template = 'final-my.cnf'
>>> 48: end
>>> 49:
>>> 50>> r = resources("template[#{mycnf_template}]")
>>> 51: r.notifies_immediately(:restart, 'service[mysql]')
>>> 52:
>>> 53: mysql_connection_info = {
>>> 54: host: 'localhost',
>>> 55: username: 'root',
>>> 56: password: node['mysql']['server_root_password']
>>> 57: }
>>> 58:
>>> 59: mysql_database 'FLUSH PRIVILEGES' do
>>> 
>>> Now, I talked to people on IRC and apparently not all cookbooks work with 
>>> Fedora. I don't plan to put Fedora in production, we would be using RHEL 
>>> there, I tried it only for testing purposes. But I am still interested to 
>>> know, what is causing this error? I mean I have template defined, the why 
>>> isn't the cookbook able to find it? Isn't Fedora a part of RHEL family 
>>> anymore?
>>> Thanks,
>>> ~Peeyush Gupta
>

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