[chef] Re: Chef12 and backup

[Lamont Granquist < >]

yeah, the chef-11 rubygems is ancient and probably doesn't support that 
option.

you can do:  `/opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem update --system` which will 
update to 2.4.5, but then you'll have all the fun of recompiling all of 
the native gems in the bundle and any that you've chef_gem installed 
(it'll complain about the need to 'gem pristine' various gems).

i'd advise getting off of chef-11 ASAP.  as issues with the old 
rubygems become worse we won't be able to solve them by rolling it 
forwards in chef-11.

we're going to look at doing the next release of chef-11 with the 
maximum rubygems bump that we can make which may make it more 
maintainable, but chef-11 may fairly quickly run out of usable runway.

On Wed Dec 17 14:24:50 2014, Tiago Cruz wrote:
> Thanks Lamont!
>
> Where should I pass this option?
>
>
>  
>  ~]# /opt/opscode/embedded/bin/gem install knife-ec-backup
> --minimal-deps
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (OptionParser::InvalidOption)
>     invalid option: --minimal-deps
>
>
>  
>  ~]# /opt/opscode/embedded/bin/gem install --minimal-deps
> knife-ec-backup
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (OptionParser::InvalidOption)
>     invalid option: --minimal-deps
>
>
>  
>  ~]# /opt/opscode/embedded/bin/gem --minimal-deps install
> knife-ec-backup
> ERROR:  Invalid option: --minimal-deps.  See 'gem --help'.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Lamont Granquist 
> <
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>     On Wed Dec 17 08:04:22 2014, Tiago Cruz wrote:
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>
>         I also tried to use the knife-ec-backup, but I can't install:
>
>             ...
>             # /opt/opscode/embedded/bin/gem install knife-ec-backup
>             ERROR:  Error installing knife-ec-backup:
>             ohai requires Ruby version >= 2.0.0.
>             ...
>
>
>     you should be able to fix that by adding --minimal-deps
>
>
>
> --
> -- Tiago Cruz