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

[Matt Ray < >]

Over in the Chef/OpenStack community we've dropped support for Fedora
because no one was maintaining support for it. The users of these
cookbooks are primarily using Ubuntu 12.04, RHEL 6 and SLES 11.3.
You're welcome to join us in #openstack-chef on irc.freenode.net or on
our mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/opscode-chef-openstack
to discuss it further.

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Cloud Integrations Product Lead :: Chef
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Lamont Granquist 
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 wrote:
> The "rhel" platform_family was initially supposed to be recompiled redhat
> enterprise linux clones (hence 'rhel' and not 'redhat') that are mostly
> compatible in all their versions of things and use the same platform_version
> numbering scheme -- so RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux and Oracle.   Later
> 'amazon' snuck in there even though they upgrade all kinds of RPMs and use
> version numbers like "2013.09", which wasn't the original intent since
> 'amazon' is not rhel -- 'fedora' is also not 'rhel' either.  We can add
> fedora to the rhel platform_family but it only sorta kicks the can down the
> road a bit and then this kind of thing breaks:
>
> case platform_family
> when "rhel"
>  if platform_version.to_i == 6
>    do_something_for_rhel6
>  else
>    do_something_for_rhel5
>  end
> end
>
>
> On Wed Mar  5 00:09:01 2014, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
>>
>> 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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