[chef] Re: Re: Re: Service Resource broken on OSX as of 11.12

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Brian Hatfield wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>  
> Thanks for your response!
>  
> I can add this to the ticket if you'd like, but the resource attempts to 
> glob a resource here:
>  
> https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/provider/service/macosx.rb#L192-L195
>  
> using a list of locations defined here:
>  
> https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/provider/service/macosx.rb#L28-L38
>  
> It seems plausible that one might run a service with a plist located 
> elsewhere on the filesystem than what's in this list (we're not doing that 
> under Chef, but I've seen it done).
>  
> Brian
Okay, thanks for explaining. It looks to me like we only need to find the 
service label from the plist to enable or disable a service, so we can 
probably make the provider tolerate a missing plist file for the other 
actions. I’d add a return statement here: 
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/provider/service/macosx.rb#L175
 (e.g., `return false if @plist.nil?`) and change this 
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/provider/service/macosx.rb#L62
 to only require a service label for :enable and :disable.

I think something like that should at least fix everything that was working 
previously, yes?


--  
Daniel DeLeo