[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: AWS Security Cookbook

[George Miranda < >]

Handling Nokogiri dependencies seems like a likely candidate for a new
community cookbook?  I've run into this problem repeatedly, on
different platforms, any time there's a reliance on nokogiri somewhere
up the chain.

http://www.nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html

Doug, try fulfilling the deps for your platform based on the link
above and you'll proceed past the libiconv errors.

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On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Douglas Garstang
<
 >
 wrote:
> Eric,
>
> They didn't specifically say at the conference which one they where
> referring to, but this seems like the likely candidate:
>
> https://github.com/SearchSpring/aws_security
>
> I just took a look at the mkmf log file, and it seems to be failing here:
>
> /tmp/ccGwgqii.o: In function `main':
> /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/nokogiri-1.6.4.1/ext/nokogiri/conftest.c:8:
> undefined reference to `libiconv_open'
> /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/nokogiri-1.6.4.1/ext/nokogiri/conftest.c:9:
> undefined reference to `libiconv'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> Usually this would mean a library is missing (how I'd get the package
> installed first from chef would be a challenge), but I can't seem to find
> any library called libiconv on CentOS 6.5. It looks like you can compile
> nokogirl with --without-iconv, but I don't know how I could wrap the
> aws_security cookbook to make it do that. :(
>
> Doug.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Eric Herot 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>>
>> For those of us not at the conference, can you say what the name of the
>> cookbook you’re trying to use is?
>>
>>
>> FYI there was a recent change to the Nokogiri gem that added another
>> external package dependency (specifically libghc-zlib-dev on Ubuntu). I’d
>> suggest filing an issue with the cookbook author letting them know that 
>> this
>> problem exists.
>>
>>
>>
>> On November 14, 2014 at 12:50:23 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
>> (
 )
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, November 14, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>
>> > So, I was at one of the chef sessions at AWS Re:Invent yesterday,
>> > apparently there's a cookbook for creating security groups. Giant gaping
>> > security issues aside, when I tried to use it, it fails building 
>> > nokigiri. I
>> > don't think that's _ever_ compiled successfully.
>> >
>> > Is there an alternative?
>> >
>> > Doug
>>
>> Ruby has an XML library in the standard lib called REXML. It’s obviously
>> much slower, but on the client side I think most use cases can tolerate the
>> performance hit, but most tooling authors just use nokogiri for whatever
>> reason. You could file an issue asking the authors to investigate using
>> REXML instead (though this may not be possible if they’re relying on an
>> upstream AWS library).
>>
>> As for installing nokogiri, there are options for the installer to use
>> local libxml2 packages rather than vendoring its own, these should be
>> described in the nokogiri documentation. You might have to take over the
>> nokogiri installation step to get this to work, depending on how this
>> cookbook installs it.
>>
>> --
>> Daniel DeLeo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
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>
> Douglas Garstang
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