[chef] Re: Chef12 and backup

[Lamont Granquist < >]

Uhm, I'd be awfully cautious about that, and I'm not the expert there.  
I can think of a few ways that'd be the right call, and I can think of 
a few ways that'd go horribly wrong.

Hopefully someone from the server team will poke their head in here and 
give an authoritative answer.

On Wed Dec 17 16:58:23 2014, Tiago Cruz wrote:
> Hum... so, just to confirm:
>
> Now that the update has been done, I can just run "rpm -e chef-server"
> and be happy?
>
>
>  
>  ~]$ rpm -qa | grep chef
> chef-server-11.0.12-1.el6.x86_64
> chef-server-core-12.0.0-1.el6.x86_64
> chef-12.0.0-1.x86_64
>
> Thanks a lot, Lamont!
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Lamont Granquist 
> <
>  
> <mailto:
>  >>
>  wrote:
>
>
>     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
>         
> <
>  
>  
> <mailto:
>  >
>         
> <mailto:
>  
>  
> <mailto:
>  >>>
>  wrote:
>
>             On Wed Dec 17 08:04:22 2014, Tiago Cruz wrote:
>
>
>                 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
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> -- Tiago Cruz